Ease Your TMJ Pain With These Expert Recommend Products
For those with frequent or chronic TMJ pain, it can be difficult to find relief from this particularly relentless facial discomfort. It’s a painful and misunderstood condition that affects 5% (and possibly up to 12%) of individuals, including young people, which makes it a rarity in the world of chronic pain. The lack of resources, […]
The Best Products Dentist Recommend To Help Chronic Dry Mouth
A pasty, sandpaper feeling in the mouth, bad breath and difficulty swallowing are all symptoms of a chronic dry mouth — symptoms that JoAnn Gurenlian, a dental hygienist and director of education and research with the American Dental Hygienists Association, experienced herself when undergoing cancer treatment several years ago. “It was so bad at one […]
Eating late increases hunger, decreases calories burned, and changes fat tissue
Obesity afflicts approximately 42 percent of the U.S. adult population and contributes to the onset of chronic diseases, including diabetes, cancer, and other conditions. While popular healthy diet mantras advise against midnight snacking, few studies have comprehensively investigated the simultaneous effects of late eating on the three main players in body weight regulation and thus […]
Smaller Airways Set the Stage for Worse COPD Outcomes in Women
Smaller airways in women may explain their worse respiratory outcomes in chronic obstructive pulmonary disease (COPD), a large cohort study suggested. For never-smokers and ever-smokers alike, CT imaging revealed that men had thicker airway walls than women, who also had smaller airway lumen dimensions after accounting for height and total lung capacity. “It is plausible […]
Diets higher in calcium and potassium may help prevent recurrent symptomatic kidney stones
Kidney stones can cause not only excruciating pain but also are associated with chronic kidney disease, osteoporosis and cardiovascular disease. If you’ve experienced a kidney stone once, you have a 30% chance of having another kidney stone within five years. Changes in diet are often prescribed to prevent recurrent symptomatic kidney stones. However, little research […]
Extreme heat exposure worsens child malnutrition
Exposure to extreme heat increases both chronic and acute malnutrition among infants and young children in low-income countries — threatening to reverse decades of progress, Cornell University research finds. Linking survey and geocoded weather data over more than 20 years, a study of more than 32,000 West African children ages 3-36 months found that average […]
Gene Therapy Makes Inroads Against a Form of Hemophilia
Latest Chronic Pain News FRIDAY, July 22, 2022 (HealthDay News) People with hemophilia B could find their bleeding risk dramatically reduced with just one injection of an experimental gene therapy, a new study reports. Hemophilia B is a rare and inherited genetic disorder in which people have low levels of the factor IX (FIX) protein, […]
Relapse Patterns in Chronic Hep B After Halting Treatment
Chronic hepatitis B patients who discontinued tenofovir disoproxil fumarate (TDF, Viread) after achieving viral suppression had higher rates of clinical relapse compared to those who stopped entecavir, a global retrospective study found. At 6 and 24 months, clinical relapse rates after stopping TDF grew from 31% to 58%, which was significantly higher than after entecavir […]
Nerve-Cooling Implant Could Ease Pain Without Opioids
Latest Chronic Pain News By Amy Norton HealthDay Reporter FRIDAY, July 1, 2022 (HealthDay News) Hinting at a future alternative to opioid painkillers, scientists have developed a tiny implant designed to ease post-surgery pain and then dissolve once the job is done. So far, the research has been limited to lab animals, and it will […]
Fewer Headache Days With Acupuncture
Acupuncture helped reduce the frequency of chronic tension-type headaches (CTTH), a randomized controlled trial in China found. More than two-thirds (68.2%) of people with CTTH who received true acupuncture reported at least a 50% reduction in the number of monthly headache days at week 16, compared with 48.1% who had superficial acupuncture (OR 2.65, 95% […]