Pain Management

Canadian product monographs for prescription opioids are being updated to include the risk of esophageal dysfunction with long-term opioid use.

The International Pain and Spine Intervention Society and the American Academy of Pain Medicine were among 34 medical professional societies that signed a response to the paper saying the journal should retract it.

You may ask, why am I presenting ‘strange cases’ to an audience of primarily family doctors?

Findings show the need to take the holistic approach when diagnosing and managing chronic pain.

Get the info you need on this new product, part of our drug news roundup for July.

A University of Ottawa study examined what worked in a collaboration they hope will be copied in other projects.

A large meta-analysis reviewed the benefits and risks associated with various treatments used for pediatric pain. One class of drugs stands out in particular.

A new Canadian study examined how hypnosis helped patients handle chronic orofacial pain, as well as anxiety, during trips to the dentist.