NEWS
By FRANK ROYLANCE | June 26, 2009
It's the lightning season again. Bolts from the sky kill more than 50 Americans each year, on average. Nine have died so far in 2009. Most are young males, and a third are struck at work. Ninety percent of those hit by lightning survive, but often with chronic pain, brain injury and thought-processing problems. Hear thunder? Go inside. Stay off (and unplug) hard-wired computers, phones or games.
NEWS
June 15, 2009
Pain is the No. 1 reason people seek medical help. Acute-onset pain suggests a medical emergency and immediate medical assistance is necessary. Chronic pain has a significant impact on human life. According to Dr. Zhaoming Chen, the best way to control chronic pain is a multidisciplinary approach that includes complementary and alternative medicine. Chen, chairman of the American Association of Integrative Medicine and a physician at St. Agnes Hospital, offers several easy ways to help people deal with pain.
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By From Sun news services | January 19, 2009
On tonight's House, the cranky doctor finally gets a patient he can relate to. In this new episode, House (Hugh Laurie) and his team try to figure out what's wrong with a man suffering from chronic pain - something House has lived with for years. No word on whether the patient is also an insufferable jerk. Meanwhile, Foreman and Thirteen (Omar Epps and Olivia Wilde) deal with their budding relationship, and Cuddy (Lisa Edelstein) gets a lesson in juggling work and parenthood. The medical mystery show now in its fifth season celebrates its 100 episode next month.
NEWS
September 5, 2008
The June letter from the Baltimore Health Department alerted physicians, nurses and other providers to a significant increase in methadone-related overdose deaths. The letter from Dr. Laura Herrera, a deputy city health commissioner, raised the possibility that the overdoses involved prescriptions for pain. It was a cautionary reminder that health care providers should educate their patients about the proper use of methadone and the lethal risks of taking extra doses. Dr. Herrera was right to be concerned: Methadone-overdose deaths of city residents have risen from seven in 1995 to 74 in 2007.
NEWS
By Joe Graedon and Teresa Graedon | May 15, 2008
The solution of equal parts Listerine, baby oil and water for dogs' hot spots is the most fantastic remedy I've read about in a long time! The minute my dogs start "worrying" a spot, I get out my spray bottle, spray the area thoroughly, massage the solution into their skin, and the problem stops immediately. No more hot spots that involve trips to the vet. Several years ago, we heard from a radio listener that his veterinarian had suggested Listerine and baby oil for his Dobermans and his horses.
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By David Kohn | April 10, 2008
Sixteen years ago, Steve Zatuchni was a computer sales manager, making a six-figure income. Then all hell broke loose in his brain. He became severely depressed, to the point that he could no longer work. He slept up to 18 hours a day, and when he was awake, felt so miserable he wished he were asleep. He tried dozens of medicines, in myriad combinations. Nothing worked. Distraught, he tried to kill himself several times. Then, in 2004, he enrolled in a study of an experimental therapy called transcranial magnetic stimulation, or TMS -- a noninvasive treatment that sends magnetic pulses into the brain.
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By Chris Emery | October 14, 2007
The crash that grounded Linda Berl had nothing to do with the Piper Cherokee that she flew to shuttle needy Eastern Shore patients to local hospitals. What got her was a low-altitude tumble from the front porch of her Delaware home in 2001 that left her with a broken leg and persistent, debilitating pain. "Sometimes I'll feel like my foot is on fire," she said. "It feels very deep, like it's in my bones." The pain dominated Berl's life for years, but now the 47-year-old Smyrna resident hopes to return to flying with the help of a spinal cord stimulator -- a device that Johns Hopkins doctors implanted under the skin of her back to override pain signals traveling from her body to her brain.
NEWS
June 5, 2005
Carroll hospital offers advice on pain for women Carroll Hospital Center will hold a program on "Women and Chronic Pain " from 6:30 p.m. to 8 p.m. Wednesday at the Women's Place on Stoner Avenue in Westminster. Dr. Vajira Gunawardane will present information on living and dealing with chronic pain. Information: 410-848-2244. Family support group focuses on dementia care Copper Ridge, in partnership with the Alzheimer's Association Greater Maryland Chapter, will hold a Family Support Group meeting at 6:30 p.m. Thursday in the Kershner Room.
NEWS
By Bruce Japsen | April 11, 2005
Despite sweeping new warnings that the nation's most popular painkillers can harm hearts, stomachs and skin, many Americans are going to go right on taking them, saying the relief is worth the risk. The popular arthritis drug Bextra last week became the second Cox-2 painkiller pulled from the market while the Food and Drug Administration pinned its highest warnings on Celebrex and nearly 20 other common prescription-strength drugs such as Mobic, Motrin, Naprosyn and ibuprofen. The move tainted trusted remedies and replaced them with nothing but confusing alternatives, prompting many patients to count pills and ration what's left of medications that have worked for them.
NEWS
By Gina Davis | November 26, 2004
Dr. Charles Morris Narrow, a noted pain management and rehabilitation physician, died of a heart attack Nov. 19 in his Owings Mills home. He was 48. The day he died, he had been expected to leave for Israel, where he was scheduled to speak at the annual conference of the Israel Association of Physical Medicine and Rehabilitation. Dr. Narrow was born and raised in Levittown, Pa., and earned a bachelor's degree in biology in 1978 from Earlham College in Richmond, Ind. He graduated from Ross University School of Medicine in Edison, N.J., in 1988 and completed his residency in physical medicine and rehabilitation in 1992 at National Rehabilitation Hospital in Washington, D.C., where he was chief resident.