The use of regular, low-dose, oral sustained-release morphine for 4 weeks in patients with COPD and moderate to very severe breathlessness has been shown to improve disease-specific health status.
Patients with asthma and/or chronic obstructive pulmonary disease have an increased risk for the development of long-term lower back pain.
Higher rates of pulmonary complications are more likely to occur in patients who receive high total doses of naloxone for the treatment of opioid overdose in an out-of-hospital setting.
Researchers found that first-generation antihistamines are ineffective in preventing migraine, but that there is the potential for H3 agonists to treat migraine.
Investigators found data that show that emotional childhood traumas are linked to prolonged medication overuse.
Researchers examined the prevalence and distribution of clinical and ultrasound pathologic findings at ankle level in patients with rheumatoid arthritis.
The study underscores the importance of migraine with aura symptom onset in the evaluation of ischemic stroke risk in late life.
Researchers pharmacologically confirmed the pain phenotype of a noninvasive mechanical joint-loading model of osteoarthritis, thus proposing an alternative murine model for osteoarthritic pain.
Knee pain predicted accelerated cartilage volume loss and increased risk for incident radiographic osteoarthritis.
The investigators sought to evaluate the prevalence of migraines, as well as the effect of sex and stress on migraines.
