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American Family Physician
September 15, 2003
Leeman et al. |
The Nature and Management of Labor Pain: Part II. Pharmacologic Pain Relief Parenteral opioids provide modest pain relief in labor, and little evidence supports the use of one agent over another. Epidural analgesia is used during labor in most large U.S. hospitals, and its use is rapidly increasing in small hospitals.   |
American Family Physician
August 15, 2005
Lawrence Leeman |
Curbside Consultation A comparison of patient-choice cesarean delivery and vaginal delivery. |
American Family Physician
September 15, 2003 |
Labor Pain: What to Expect and Ways to Relieve Pain This is my first baby. What will labor feel like?... How can I prepare for the pain of labor?... What is a doula? How might a doula help me?... How does an epidural work? Are there different kinds?... How will epidural pain medicine affect my labor? Are there risks or side effects?... etc. |
American Journal of Nursing
April 2010
Mary Curry Narayan |
Culture's Effects on Pain Assessment and Management When patients belong to a culture or speak a language that's different from that of their health care provider, the provider faces additional challenges in successfully assessing and managing the patients' pain. |
Nursing
June 2008
Yvonne D'arcy |
Nursing2008 Pain Management Survey Report See how your responses to this survey compare with those of nursing colleagues across the country and beyond. |
American Journal of Nursing
May 2009
Patricia Connor-Ballard |
Understanding and Managing Burn Pain: Part 2 Despite advances in treatment of burn injuries and their consequent pain, wound care is the main source of the pain associated with burn injury. |
American Family Physician
March 1, 2005
Carolyn J. Sachs |
Oral Analgesics for Acute Nonspecific Pain Direct comparative studies of acetaminophen and nonsteroidal anti-inflammatory drugs (NSAIDs) have shown that NSAIDs are more effective than acetaminophen in some situations, but provide equivalent analgesia in others. |
American Journal of Nursing
June 2008
Ellen Flaherty |
How to Try This: Using Pain-Rating Scales with Older Adults Pain is often undertreated and underdiagnosed in older adults. Regular use of short, simple, reliable pain-rating scales provides nurses and physicians with measurable information to establish and modify a pain management plan. |
Nursing
October 2009
Yvonne D'Arcy |
Overturning barriers to pain relief in older adults This article will describe how to lower the barriers to effective pain control in older patients and provide practical tips for helping them receive the full benefit from pharmacologic and nonpharmacologic therapies. |
American Journal of Nursing
July 2008
Horgas & Miller |
Pain Assessment in People with Dementia The Pain Assessment in Advanced Dementia (PAINAD) scale has been designed to assess pain in this population by looking at five specific indicators. |
American Journal of Nursing
April 2009 |
Understanding and Managing Burn Pain: Part 1 Despite advances in topical wound care and pharmacology, and a growing emphasis on palliative care, wound care is the main source of the pain associated with burn injury. |
American Family Physician
December 1, 2005
Cole, Seto & Gazewood |
Plantar Fasciitis: Evidence-Based Review of Diagnosis and Therapy Most interventions used to manage plantar fasciitis have not been studied adequately; however, shoe inserts, stretching exercises, steroid injection, and custom-made night splints may be beneficial. |
Managed Care
May 2005 |
Microcircuit Devices Deliver Considerable Relief From Chronic Pain Recent advances in pain relief revolve around longer-lasting implantable devices. Can managed care afford not to have a pain management strategy? |
American Journal of Nursing
March 2011
Jablonski et al. |
The Use of Algorithms in Assessing and Managing Persistent Pain in Older Adults This article introduces readers to the use of algorithms in guiding the assessment and management of persistent pain in older adults, and provides an illustrative case study. |
BusinessWeek
January 17, 2005
Catherine Arnst |
No Pain, Some Gain The 50 million Americans suffering from chronic pain got a little bit of good news in December. The Food & Drug Administration greenlighted two new medications that attack pain in completely novel ways. |
Nurse Practitioner
May 2009
Yvonne D'Arcy |
Is Low Back Pain Getting on Your Nerves? The pain and disability of low back pain are the most common reasons patients seek healthcare. Here are tools for diagnosis and treatment options. |
Nurse Practitioner
December 2011 |
Managing pain in obese patients Obesity-related pain conditions can limit the patient's efforts at increasing activity and limit quality of life. This article will offer information on these conditions and treatment options. |
Nursing Management
March 2012
Yvonne D'Arcy |
Pain and obesity It can be a challenge to provide effective pain management for obese patients; however, a multimodal pain management regimen that combines medications and complementary techniques can help increase pain relief. |
American Journal of Nursing
December 2010
Baldridge & Andrasek |
Pain Assessment in People with Intellectual or Developmental Disabilities Nurses in all settings need to be knowledgeable about alternate pain assessment methods. |
American Family Physician
August 1, 2004
Snyder, Doggett & Turkelson |
Treatment of Degenerative Lumbar Spinal Stenosis This article reviews the evidence for conservative and surgical treatments for the disease that causes leg pain and difficulty walking, usually in elderly patients. |
American Journal of Nursing
February 2011
Burke et al. |
Original Research: Local Anesthesia Before IV Catheterization A comparison of the efficacy of intradermal bacteriostatic normal saline with that of intradermal buffered lidocaine in providing local anesthesia to adult patients prior to IV catheterization. |
Health
October 19, 2009
Cara Birnbaum |
What Doctors Don't Tell You About C-sections Here's the real story, and what every woman needs to know before she gets pregnant. |
American Journal of Nursing
May 2008
Jacobson et al. |
Patients' Perspectives on Total Knee Replacement Patients' perspectives on total knee replacement (TKR) surgery have rarely been the topic of research. This study sought to describe their pre- and postoperative experiences. |
Wired
February 2005
Steve Silberman |
The Painful Truth The Iraq war is a new kind of hell, with more survivors - but more maimed, shattered limbs - than ever. A revolution in battlefield medicine is helping them conquer the pain. |
Health
June 2007
Melanie Haiken |
The Best New Pain Cures?... For Women New research shows that pain can often be prevented if women use the right treatment. Here's what you should know. |
Health
May 2007
Melanie Haiken |
Smart Ways to Banish Pain Women are not small men when it comes to pain treatment. Here are better options for women: Antidepressants... Neuropathic pain relievers... etc. |
The Motley Fool
July 6, 2007
Brian Orelli |
Pain-Free Phase 2 Data Anesiva's pain medication is moving up the clinical trial ladder. The Adlea results are very promising, but investors should look at the state of the entire company before investing. |
Salon.com
August 3, 1999
Nina Shapiro |
Give me drugs! Give me drugs!: What's so feminist about a painful childbirth? |
Health
July 2007
Curt Pesmen |
Surgery to Avoid #2: Episiotomy It may sound logical that cutting or extending the vaginal opening would reduce the risk of pelvic-tissue tears and ease childbirth, but studies show that is may cause as many or more problems than it prevents. |
Registered Rep.
December 8, 2015 |
2015 Broker Report Card: Fiduciary Worries The Department of Labor is set to rule that brokers working with retirement accounts meet a fiduciary standard. |
The Motley Fool
March 30, 2005
David Nierengarten |
Soothing Results, But Pain for Investors Pain Therapeutics delivers again but its stock barely budged. What gives? |
Fast Company
August 8, 2011
Rachel Z. Arndt |
Labor Day Here is a look at the labor force, past and present. |
American Family Physician
February 1, 2005
Maizels & McCarberg |
Antidepressants and Antiepileptic Drugs for Chronic Non-Cancer Pain The development of newer classes of antidepressants and second-generation antiepileptic drugs has created unprecedented opportunities for the treatment of chronic pain. These drugs modulate pain transmission by interacting with specific neurotransmitters and ion channels. |
American Family Physician
December 15, 2000
Susan Mockus Parks & Karen D. Novielli |
A Practical Guide to Caring for Caregivers Patients who provide care to family members or friends with dementia are likely to be in a family physician's practice. The caregiver role can be stressful, and identifying these patients can give the family physician opportunities to help patients cope with the challenges of the role... |
HHMI Bulletin
February 2012
Marc Wortman |
Where Does It Hurt? Researchers are getting to the molecular details of pain's circuitry to answer the question with real specificity. |
Health
April 2007
Linda Formichelli |
Take That! (for pain) Here's the latest on over-the-counter pain relief fixes. |
Outside
August 2007
Eric Hansen |
The Wimp Gene At the Human Pain Research Laboratory at Stanford University, Pain Labbers routinely subject themselves to all manner of torture, all in the name of science. Are you tough enough? |
American Family Physician
September 15, 2005 |
Shingles: Easing the Pain A patient overview of the disease, its causes and treatment options. |
Nursing
September 2008
Susan Simmons Holcomb |
Acute Abdomen: What a Pain! So many things - some life-threatening - can cause abdominal pain. Here's how to capture the clues quickly and accurately. |
American Family Physician
July 15, 2004
Tracy Aldridge |
Diagnosing Heel Pain in Adults A thorough history and a physical examination of the lower extremity should be conducted to locate the pain, define its attributes, and narrow the differential diagnosis. |
IDB America
Jul/Aug 2000
Paul Constance |
An epidemic of cesareans Latin America is spending an estimated $425 million annually on over 850,000 needless operations... |
Nurse Practitioner
May 2012
Hammersla & Kapustin |
Peripheral Neuropathy: Evidence-based treatment of a complex disorder Peripheral neuropathy is a common and often progressive condition frequently seen in primary care. The chronic pain associated with PN, or neuropathic pain, can significantly diminish patients' quality of life and be challenging to treat. |
Nurse Practitioner
April 2012
Firestone et al. |
Optimizing fibromyalgia management This article summarizes current information regarding the etiology, pathophysiology, clinical presentation, diagnostic standards, and pharmacologic and non-pharmacologic treatments necessary to successfully manage FM. |
Health
December 2006
Michael Castleman |
Feel Better Naturally Alternative pain relievers: Gum for heartburn... Music for body aches... Hypnotherapy for ... everything?... Chaste tree berry for tender breasts... Good fats for cramps... |
American Family Physician
January 15, 2007 |
Patellofemoral Pain Syndrome A patient guide: What are the symptoms of PFPS?... How is it treated?... Will I need surgery?... Will the pain come back?... |
American Family Physician
March 15, 2006 |
Quantum Sufficit Easier to get information from Internet than from a doctor... Vitamin D makes it easier to breathe... Iodine in milk may be the cause of teenage acne... Using yoga to relieve lower back pain... Higher tolerance of pain in children with sweet tooth... Preventing eating disorders... |
Reason
April 2003
Melinda Ammann |
The Agony and the Ecstasy How the OxyContin crackdown hurts patients in pain |
Finance & Development
September 2010
Melinda Gates |
Saving Mothers' Lives Countries must make maternal health a policy priority |
American Family Physician
November 1, 2006
Lyon & Clark |
Diagnosis of Acute Abdominal Pain in Older Patients Acute abdominal pain is a common presenting complaint in older patients, but may be difficult to diagnose. Here are some common causes of abdominal pain in old patients and recommendations for treatment. |
U.S. Banker
June 2011
Mark R. Pawlak |
Sizing Up the Labor Force A drop in unemployment is typically associated with growth in the labor force. But in the current market, that's not happening, which makes the Fed's job more difficult. |
