100 Most Recent Posts

• My cabin home burned down (8/23/2020)
• “Do No Harm” Means Providing Proper Pain Treatment (8/19/2020)
• Doctors and pain patients: Conflict and collaboration (8/18/2020)
• Forced Tapering of Opioids Ethically Impermissible (8/17/2020)
• The social threats of COVID for pain pateints (8/16/2020)
• Melatonin Affects Muscle and Exercise (8/15/2020)
• Pharmacies Sued for Discrimination Against Pain Patients (8/14/2020)
• Exercise Hyped as Universal Solution to Chronic Pain (8/13/2020)
• DOJ Tricks Used in Prescribing Prosecution (8/12/2020)
• Potentially More Chronic Pain after COVID (8/11/2020)
• Advice for Newcomers to Diagnosis of EDS (8/10/2020)
• Pain Warriors: Civil Rights for Our Time (8/9/2020)
• Common colds train immune system to recognize COVID (8/8/2020)
• Lower Back Pain Can Improve After Hip Replacement (8/7/2020)
• How pain affects focus and attention (8/6/2020)
• The HPA – Immune Axis in the Brain (8/5/2020)
• COVID worsens shortage of hospital opioids (8/4/2020)
• Dogs can identify COVID in humans (8/3/2020)
• EDS: Analysis of Current Treatment Options (8/2/2020)
• About Wearing a Mask… (8/1/2020)
• The Grade Working Group: Grading the Graders (7/31/2020)
• Low-Dose Radiation for Viruses like COVID (7/30/2020)
• Of Course, Masks Protect the Wearer! (7/29/2020)
• Genetic Polymorphisms and Pain (7/28/2020)
• Brain Damage from Chronic Pain (7/27/2020)
• Crowdsourced Coronavirus Tech Handbook (7/26/2020)
• Annie Lennox Publicizes Her Chronic Pain (7/25/2020)
• Pain Management in the Ehlers-Danlos Syndromes (7/24/2020)
• Maximum Opioid Doses are an Abomination (7/23/2020)
• Physical Activity as Cause and Cure of Muscular Pain (7/22/2020)
• Congressional Letter Builder (7/21/2020)
• The Surprising Science of Walking (7/20/2020)
• Articles about Aerosol Transmission of COVID (7/19/2020)
• Aerosol transmission of infectious agents (7/18/2020)
• EDS: Severe GI Symptoms, Reduced Quality of Life (7/17/2020)
• N.H. Bill supports doctors treating pain with opioids (7/16/2020)
• Hypermobile Ehlers-Danlos – NIH GeneReviews (7/15/2020)
• 239 Experts Claim Coronavirus Is Airborne (7/14/2020)
• Pain Patients Angry and Fearful about Govt. Interference (7/13/2020)
• A virus walks into a bar… (7/12/2020)
• Effects of Social Distancing on Body and Brain (7/9/2020)
• hEDS Deficit in Pain Control Mechanisms (7/8/2020)
• Neuropathic Pain & Wind-Up Phenomenon (7/7/2020)
• Higher Expectations from Patients than Doctors (7/6/2020)
• Self-administration of Hydrocortisone for Pain (7/5/2020)
• Illicit opioid use after loss of access to opioids for pain (7/4/2020)
• Indoor transmission of COVID NOT likely (7/3/2020)
• Single Session of Exercise Alters 9,815 Blood Molecules (7/2/2020)
• How Coronavirus Spreads in Cities (7/1/2020)
• Medical Tribalism in the Era of Covid-19 (6/30/2020)
• Rethinking bias and truth in evidence‐based health care (6/29/2020)
• Super-potent human antibodies against COVID-19 (6/29/2020)
• AMA recommends specific changes to CDC guideline (6/28/2020)
• AMA urges CDC to revise opioid prescribing guideline (6/27/2020)
• The Critical Importance of Corticoid Hormones (6/26/2020)
• Forecasting for COVID-19 has failed (6/25/2020)
• Neuroinflammation and Cortisol Issues (6/24/2020)
• Misperceptions about ‘Opioid Epidemic:’ Exploring Facts (6/23/2020)
• Analysis Explores Misperceptions About Opioid Epidemic (6/22/2020)
• Drug Companies Will Make a Killing From Coronavirus (6/22/2020)
• How to Talk to Your Doctor About Pain (6/21/2020)
• The Main Types of Pain (6/21/2020)
• Unfit for Work: The startling rise of disability (6/20/2020)
• Still Disinfecting Your Packages? (6/19/2020)
• Explainer: Coronavirus Risks of Everyday Activities (6/18/2020)
• Why I’m posting about the Coronavirus (6/18/2020)
• Doctor Fights State Over Opioid Tapering Ethics (6/17/2020)
• Guidelines Written and Manipulated by Insiders (6/16/2020)
• Role of Private Equity in Driving Up Health Care Prices (6/15/2020)
• Strange Dance: Performing Wellness for Others (6/14/2020)
• Belief in meritocracy not only false: it’s bad for you (6/13/2020)
• Does awareness (or pain) reside in the brain? (6/12/2020)
• Tapentadol (Nucynta) Prolonged Release: A Review (6/11/2020)
• Tax-payers Fund Research, Pharma Profits (6/10/2020)
• Genes may determine vulnerability to COVID-19 (6/9/2020)
• Vitamin D and COVID-19: The Evidence So Far (6/8/2020)
• Disastrous Incompetence at the CDC (6/7/2020)
• Pharmacological rationale for tapentadol/Nucynta (6/6/2020)
• CDC Bungling Coronavirus Response (6/5/2020)
• Coronavirus May Be a Blood Vessel Disease (6/4/2020)
• Linking Excessive Drinking with Chronic Pain (6/3/2020)
• Amount of Exposure (Viral Dose) Matters (6/2/2020)
• More on the Science of Health Care (6/2/2020)
• “Pain Catastrophizing” Term Correction (6/1/2020)
• Eleven faces of coronavirus disease 2019 (5/31/2020)
• The importance of values in evidence-based medicine (5/30/2020)
• Borderline personality disorder among chronic pain patients? (5/29/2020)
• Borderline Personality Disorder Common in Pain Patients (5/29/2020)
• Opioid Metrics Ignore Patient Care (5/28/2020)
• What is a cytokine storm? (5/27/2020)
• Features of 20,133 UK patients in hospital with covid-19 (5/26/2020)
• Cerebrovascular Risk from Chronic Pain (5/26/2020)
• Study Shows Surgery Reduces Chronic Opioid Use (5/25/2020)
• Working from home under surveillance (5/24/2020)
• A Classification of Pain Patient Behavior (5/23/2020)
• CDC is blending counts for COVID cases (5/22/2020)
• Benefits of doctors practicing without EBM (5/22/2020)
• EBM only works for the mythical “average patient” (5/21/2020)
• ‘Population Health’ Versus ‘Person-Centered’ Healthcare (5/20/2020)
• Evidence-informed Person-Centered Healthcare (5/19/2020)