pain management

As an unpaid healthcare writer and patient advocate, I’ve written for 27 years on opioid prescribing, pai

What exactly is a Morphine Milligram Equivalent (MME)? The CDC defines it as

It was an online survey of about 5130 physicians conducted in the last few months. Roughly 2/3rd male, and roughly a third 65 or older, a third between 50 and 65, and the remaining third younger than 50.

Surgeons never let the skin come between them and a problem – it is a fundamental feature of our DNA.

In a just published perspective piece in The New England Journal of Medicine, U.S. Food and Drug Administration (FDA) Commissioner Scott Gottlieb, M.D.

Between increased competition for limited resources in research funding and medical conditions that have powerful and prominent champions, among other issues, it can be especially challenging for rarer conditions like Sickle Cell Disease to remain

Pain management remains a national issue entangled and exacerbated by the simple fact that our available pain medications have significant side effects, from constipation to addiction.

Aric Hausknecht, M.D., (1) who is a neurologist and a specialist in pain management, kindly agreed to speak with me about how changing opioid laws and regulations have affected his practice and patients, as well as w