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Fear Of Prescription Drug Abuse Affects Pain Management
Millions of Americans with significant or chronic pain associated with their medical problems are being under-treated as physicians increasingly fail to provide comprehensive pain treatment – either due to inadequate training, personal biases or fear of prescription drug abuse…
Love Hurts: Why Emotional Pain Really Affects Us
Scientists have long known that opium-like painkillers, called opioids, relieve not only physical pain, but also some forms of emotional stress. Now, a new study reviewed by Faculty of 1000 Biology member Markus Heilig shows that small genetic differences in the gene for the opioid receptor can determine the intensity of people’s responses to social rejection…
UM Study Shows Chinese Acupuncture Affects Brain’s Ability To Regulate Pain
Acupuncture has been used in East-Asian medicine for thousands of years to treat pain, possibly by activating the body’s natural painkillers. But how it works at the cellular level is largely unknown. Using brain imaging, a University of Michigan study is the first to provide evidence that traditional Chinese acupuncture affects the brain’s long-term ability to regulate pain. The results appear online ahead of print in the September Journal of NeuroImage.
Chinese Acupuncture Affects Brain’s Ability To Regulate Pain, UM Study Shows
Acupuncture has been used for over two millennia in East-Asian medicine to treat pain. Using brain imaging, researchers have provided novel evidence that traditional Chinese acupuncture affects the brain’s long-term ability to regulate pain. Their findings show acupuncture acts as more than a placebo, and can activate receptors in the brain that process and dampen pain signals.
CDC Study Looks At How Smoking Affects Costs For Entitlement Programs
Smokers die about 10 years earlier than non-smokers, resulting in reduced costs for Medicare and other entitlement programs, according to CDC statistics, the AP/Arizona Daily Star reports.In debate over legislation passed last week that gave
Mothers’ Military Deployment Affects Health Of Women And Teens
Due to regional conflicts across the globe, such as wars in Iraq and Afghanistan and the global war on terrorism, women are being deployed overseas in greater numbers than ever before. Although separation of a service member from their family is always a hardship, a recent study found that a woman’s military deployment affects her health as well as that of her adolescent children.
Postmenopausal Women’s Loss Of Sexual Desire Affects Health, Quality Of Life
Women with low levels of sexual desire, often as a result of menopause, are more likely to be depressed and to suffer physical symptoms such as back pain and memory problems than women who report higher levels of desire, according to a new study by researchers at the University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill and Procter & Gamble Pharmaceuticals.
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