Opioid overdose deaths increased during the pandemic, possibly due to less access to care. The study researchers examined how the pandemic affected patients already prescribed opioids as well as new patients.
Older medical cannabis users are more likely than nonmedical users to have discussed cannabis use with a health care professional.
The researchers’ objective was to study changes in prescriptions for opioid analgesics and buprenorphine for opioid use disorder among both new and existing patients during the COVID-19 pandemic.
About 20% of United States adults experience chronic pain.
This study compared differences in functional connectivity in nociceptive processing brain regions between irritable/nonirritable phenotypes in painful diabetic neuropathy.
The researchers investigated whether higher cumulative pain intensity is associated with an excess mortality risk in patients with psoriatic arthritis.
Analyses demonstrated improvement in key treatment outcomes vs placebo associated with baricitinib for the treatment of atopic dermatitis.
The safety, tolerability, and efficacy of sofpironium bromide gel for the treatment of primary axillary hyperhidrosis was evaluated.
The patient, who had suffered a traumatic brain injury approximately 8 months prior, presented to the emergency department complaining of increasing dizziness as well as sleepwalking frequency.
Inexpensive, practical, and safe strategies to reduce patients’ pain level during inactivated PRP scalp injections are reviewed.
