I have more than a few osteoarthritis patients who are somehow under the impression that researchers have given up on them. These are people with chronically painful joints who still recall those heady days of the Cox-2 inhibitors--the "super anti-inflammatories" as the media so liked to call Vioxx, Bextra and Celebrex. Alas, their hopes were... Read more
It has been about ten years since the United States Drug Enforcement Administration (DEA) launched what some feel is a targeted war on drugs, the battleground being your Doctor's office. The DEA feels there has continued to be a diversion of prescription narcotics for use on "the street." I am not sure this is what they had in mind for Main... Read more
In this year of Hillary and Sarah, it is interesting that gender issues in medicine are becoming important... and profitable.
In 2006, Zimmer, Inc. received clearance from the United States Food and Drug Administration to market an artificial knee that is gender-specific. This is based on studies that have focused on the anatomical... Read more
How can chronic pain be prevented? Oh that I and the insurance companies knew the answer to that question!
The key is to identify those patients at risk for the development of chronic pain.
Musculoskeletal pain is a significant problem in this country: 85% of the population suffers from this affliction at some point during the... Read more
Marijuana has been used as a medical treatment for many centuries. We have been hearing more about so-called medicinal marijuana because of the recent United States Supreme Court ruling that essentially concluded that state laws permitting medicinal marijuana must bow to federal law prohibiting marijuana. This is quite a sea change from earlier... Read more
