Posted: 10:53 AM, Jul 15, 2019 Updated: 9:01 AM, Jul 15, 2019 By: Roland Rodriguez CORPUS CHRISTI, Texas — The next time you go to the emergency room with knee, hip, or back pain, you might be surprised when they don’t offer you narcotics. The Corpus Christi Medical Center (CCMC) is taking crucial first steps…
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Who Criticized for Withdrawing Opioid Guidelines
http://www.painnewsnetwork.org July 13, 2019 By Pat Anson, PNN Editor A coalition of international palliative care organizations is protesting a decision by the World Health Organization (WHO) to withdraw two guidelines for treating pain with opioid pain medication. “We are extremely concerned that the withdrawal of these guidance documents will lead to confusion and possible extreme…
What a month we have ahead!!
Things have been building up for us here in terms of hospital visits. Starting last month when mom had an exploratory surgery of her heart valves. Now with my ongoing back and when the Venus Stasis Ulcers in my legs had to be repaired again. Here’s the list of our schedule starting with mom’s procedure.…
Access to Opioids Among Chronic Pain Sufferers
7/13/19 Here’s the link to a great article on opioids and us the chronic pain sufferers. Take time to read it and let me know your thoughts. http://www.facebook.com/groups/CPPNewsSource/permalink/482310149185509
Scientists create power drug 5,000 times STRONGER than standard painkillers
THEfIRSTNEWS BY: EWAN JONES JULY 08, 2019 A chemical compound demonstrating painkilling properties 5,000 times as effective as the strongest analgesics currently available has been created by scientists of the University of Warsaw’s Faculty of Chemistry. The team of research chemists led by Prof. Aleksandra Misicka-Kęsik worked together with Prof. Barbara Przewłocka of the Institute of…

