Pain
Law & Medicine
Stay Informed About Informed Consent
Missing a diagnosis—even in the absence of negligence—can have a devastating impact on the patient, and it can be costly for you in other ways.
News
Opioids, benzodiazepines carry greater risk of COPD-related hospitalization
The risk of hospitalization because of respiratory events for patients with COPD was especially high when opioid and benzodiazepine medications...
News from the FDA/CDC
FDA approves Reyvow for acute migraine treatment
The approval of lasmiditan (Reyvow) is based on a pair of randomized, double-blind, placebo-controlled trials that included more than 3,000...
Conference Coverage
Consider centralized pain in patients with rheumatic disease
LAS VEGAS – Every patient with chronic pain should complete a fibromyalgia survey, Dr. Daniel J. Clauw says.
Article
Left ear pain
News
CDC, SAMHSA commit $1.8 billion to combat opioid crisis
Some of the funds will be used to help improve overdose monitoring.
Video
MSK Clinic: Evaluating shoulder pain using IPASS
In this first installment of the MSK Clinic video series, Dr. Alland demonstrates how to perform a shoulder exam using the IPASS model—I...
Practice Puzzler
Opioid Epidemic
This clinical puzzle is based on Salani D, Crenshaw NA, Owusu B, Gonzalez JM. Pain Management in an Opioid Epidemic: What’s Appropriate, What’s...
News
USPSTF draft guidance calls for drug use screening
They found “adequate evidence” that screening tools can detect illicit drug use.
News from the FDA/CDC
CDC finds that too little naloxone is dispensed
Despite increases in the number of naloxone prescriptions dispensed, many patients at risk for overdose are not offered the potentially life-...