Videos
Clinton Foundation's Recommendations to Address the Opioid Crisis
The Clinton Foundation's Health Matters Initiative, in partnership with the Johns Hopkins Bloomberg School of Public Health, issued a report providing 49 recommendations under 10 topic areas on how to address the opioid crisis.
Complementary Approaches to Chronic Pain Management
Pharmacologic-only approaches to the management of chronic pain seldom provide complete/adequate pain relief and experts advocate for an integrative approach to the management of chronic pain.
Emerging Dosing Device Tech Could Print Multiple, Custom-Dose Medications
Researchers are working on a new technology that could potentially allow clinicians the ability to print multiple drugs onto a dissolvable strip, a microneedle patch, or another type of dosing device.
Long-Term Opioid Rx Use Skyrocketed Between 1999 and 2014
Long-term opioid prescription use increased threefold during a 16-year period between 1999 and 2014.
Association Between Low Levels of Blimp-1 Protein, Lupus
Researchers from the Feinstein Institute for Medical Research may have identified a potential cause for lupus, which may lead to new treatment options.
Current State of Evidence on Ketamine: Uses, Effects, Research
Ketamine was found to alleviate several pain modalities, and a number of clinical trials investigating its efficacy are ongoing.
Cannabis for Medicine: Research and Policies Needed
Medical marijuana, as a botanical and a scheduled drug does not fit the FDA paradigm for drug approval, a major impediment to its use in research.
Connection Between Migraine and Hypertension in Women
Dr Pamela Rist discusses her research in women with migraine and hypertension at the 2017 American Academy of Neurology Annual Meeting in Boston, MA. Scroll to below the video for a full text transcript of Dr Rist's interview.
Naloxone: Policies and Access
Policies have helped make naloxone more available, thus contributing to the reduction of opioid-related deaths in the U.S.
Quizzes
Rheumatoid Arthritis Assessment and Management: Clinical Quiz
Compete against your peers with our rheumatoid arthritis clinical quiz.
Rx IQ: Chronic Pain Treatments
Test your knowledge of chronic pain.
Rheumatoid Arthritis Clinical Guidelines Quiz
Compete against your peers with our rheumatoid arthritis clinical quiz.
The Multifaceted Aspects of Chronic Pain
How much do you know about the role of psychosocial factors, the placebo effect, and optimal pain management practices in chronic pain?
Slideshows
How to Avoid Opioid Addiction After Surgery
If you prescribe opioids to your patients, be sure to help them avoid addiction.
Clinical Pain Advisor Articles
- IASP Updates Classification of Chronic Pain
- IASP Updates Diagnosis Criteria for Chronic Primary Pain for ICD-11
- Galcanezumab Provides Persistent Preventive Effects in Episodic, Chronic Migraine
- Early Physical Therapy for Musculoskeletal Pain May Reduce Opioid Use
- Risk Factors Associated With Chronic Opioid Use in Musculoskeletal Pain
- Reviewing the Use of Buprenorphine in Perioperative Pain Management
- Psychological Comorbidities in Chronic Pelvic Pain
- External Trigeminal Nerve Stimulation May Alleviate Migraine Pain
- IASP Updates Diagnosis Criteria for Chronic Primary Pain for ICD-11
- Galcanezumab Provides Persistent Preventive Effects in Episodic, Chronic Migraine
- Opioids Found to Increase Risk for Community-Acquired Pneumonia, Particularly in HIV
- Chronic Neuropathic Pain Updated Classification by IASP for ICD-11
- Private Equity Acquisition of Physician Practices Discussed
- Many Adults in 50s, Early 60s Worried About Health Insurance
- Social Media and the Spread of Misinformation: Taking Back Public Health
