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Why everyone is talking about the vagus nerve " and how it's really affecting your health
1+ mon, 2+ week ago (765+ words) How long have you got?" is Professor Owen Epstein's response when I ask what the vagus nerve does. A pioneering consultant gastroenterologist, his areas of special interest include the role of the vagus nerve in gastrointestinal health and disease. Like…...
PEPITEM "replacement therapy" shows potential for early-stage inflammatory arthritis
10+ hour, 26+ min ago (387+ words) Scientists investigating the naturally occurring immunopeptide PEPITEM have shown reductions in arthritic joint swelling to a degree comparable to the current standard of care, and reduce the inflammatory changes that cause joint damage. This tightly orchestrated process regulates immune function…...
Vagus nerve stimulator shows ongoing efficacy in rheumatoid arthritis
2+ mon, 1+ week ago (333+ words) An implantable vagus nerve stimulation device yielded an ACR20 response rate of more than 52% at 12 months in patients with rheumatoid arthritis, according to findings published in Nature Medicine. In the double-blind, randomized, sham-controlled RESET-RA trial, Tesser and colleagues assessed the Set…...
Marijuana Rescheduling Countdown: Why the "Order of Operations" and Todd Blanche's Appointment Define the Path to Schedule III
5+ day, 11+ hour ago (550+ words) As President Trump Directs Acting Attorney General Todd Blanche to Fast-Track Marijuana Rescheduling, MMJ International Holdings Emphasizes the Necessity of a Bulletproof Legal Process to Accelerate Clinical Breakthroughs for it's Huntington's and Multiple Sclerosis Trials. . For MMJ International Holdings, a…...
Novel research design may overcome barriers to study of cannabis for cancer symptom relief
2+ mon, 1+ week ago (831+ words) A novel collaboration may establish a framework to help researchers overcome regulatory barriers they often face when conducting interventional cannabis trials. Investigators in Minnesota partnered with their state's medical cannabis program on a pilot trial that evaluated whether medical cannabis…...
Aetna Therapists in Salina, UT
2+ mon, 20+ hour ago (55+ words) Sometimes therapy is covered for a couple when one person has a diagnosis and another family member joins them for joint therapy, but it is considered therapy for the medical condition that includes a. .. Aetna Therapists in Salina, UT See more…...
Patient Reports Are Reliable, Accurate Measure of Opioid Consumption After Surgery
4+ hour, 24+ min ago (311+ words) Patient-reported opioid consumption after orthopedic fracture surgery is found to be accurate and have good to excellent agreement with blister-pack pill counts, according to results of a study published in Pain Reports. Researchers aimed to determine the accuracy and reliability…...
Opioid Use and Depression Increases Postsurgical Risk for Adverse Pain Outcomes
4+ day, 1+ hour ago (405+ words) Preoperative opioid use and depression may be associated with an increased rate of chronic postsurgical pain (CPSP) and persistent postoperative opioid use (PPOU) following total shoulder arthroplasty, according to study results presented at the American Academy of Pain Medicine (AAPM)…...
Study suggests Trump's unproven autism claims influenced care
1+ mon, 1+ week ago (574+ words) Last year, President Donald Trump told pregnant women not to take Tylenol as he promoted unproven ties between the fever reducer and autism and touted an old generic drug as a treatment for the developmental condition. For nearly three months…...
Treating chronic pain: UTD researchers make advancements in non-opioid pain management
4+ hour, 31+ min ago (367+ words) One in four people suffers with chronic pain and the current best practice for pain management is opioids, which can be over-prescribed and highly addictive. That's why researchers at the University of Texas at Dallas are studying non-opioid treatments for…...