Pain, chronic

Skin Disease Can Cause Physical And Emotional Problems People with the chronic skin condition psoriasis suffer from emotional and physical problems that can rival those of more-serious diseases , according to North Carolina researchers...

Herbal Remedies Popular For Arthritis Many arthritis sufferers supplement their prescription medication with alternative therapies without telling their doctors -- a potentially unsafe practice, note US researchers...

CT Scan Urged For Sinusitis Patients With Headache Patients with sinusitis who report headache, facial pain or pressure, or a combination of these symptoms should receive a computed tomography (CT) scan prior to treatment of the headache to establish the true extent of sinusitis...

Botox Shots May Prevent Chronic Migraine Symptoms Fifty percent of patients with chronic migraine who are treated with Botulinum toxin type A (Botox) injections remain migraine-free for an average of 3.2 months...

Landmark Survey Shows Significant Impact Of Irritable Bowel Syndrome On Lives Of American Women In the largest, most comprehensive national survey ever on irritable bowel syndrome (IBS), nearly 40 percent of women with IBS reported experiencing abdominal pain they described as intolerable without some kind of relief...

Chemotherapy, Stem Cell Transplant Helps Rheumatoid Arthritis High doses of chemotherapy followed by stem cell transplantation might help some patients with severe, drug-resistant rheumatoid arthritis (RA)...

October Is Lupus Awareness Month Lupus affects more Americans than multiple sclerosis, cystic fibrosis sickle-cell anemia or leukemia...

Costly New Drugs Curb Rheumatoid Arthritis Lois Winter had just been diagnosed with rheumatoid arthritis when, only a week later, she had her first flare...

Caught In The Middle Of Conflict On Medical Marijuana The conflict between the state and federal governments over the use of marijuana by AIDS, cancer, and other patients in chronic pain despite some medical studies...

Promising Therapy For Chronic Pain Molecular neurosurgery, a new approach for treating chronic pain, is showing considerable promise in early-stage experiments with animals, pain specialists reported Wednesday.