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Chronic Pain News for 02-05-2005
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Paint fire's victims share pain (Indianapolis Star via Yahoo! News)
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" Jason Miller spoke from a Marion Superior Court witness stand about pain and skin grafts, but he made his point best when he took off his shirt to expose a patchwork of scars on his chest and back."
Experiment aims to find out whether faith can relieve pain (Omaha World-Herald)
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"LONDON - In an experiment supported by a U.S.-based foundation, Oxford University scientists will inflict pain on volunteer subjects as part of a study to determine whether belief in God helps relieve suffering."
PLAYBILL.COM'S THEATRE WEEK IN REVIEW: Bad for 'Good'; Pleasure for 'Pain' (Playbill via Yahoo! News)
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" Filling the stage of the Eugene O'Neill with a crowd of young handsome actors and scads of Beach Boys songs, the producers of the multi-million-dollar musical Good Vibrations got only brickbats for their trouble. Meanwhile, down on Union Square, a quirky, low-budget one-hour, one-person play called Thom Pain (based on nothing) by the unfamous Will Eno and starring the only slightly less unknown"
The pain game (Palm Beach Post)
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"Terrell Owens wants a place with athletes who didn't let pain deny them greatness. There is no clubhouse for the group Terrell Owens wants to join, but if there was, it need not be large. LEGENDS, it would say on the door. Nothing more."
Health Tip: Chest Pain Is Nothing to Sneeze At (HealthDay via Yahoo! News)
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" (HealthDayNews) -- Many people get a little chest pain once in a while. Others get a lot of chest pain too often."
Chronic Pain News from NewsTrove
Kaiser To Stop Dispensing Bextra
From: NewsTrove.com
"OAKLAND, Calif.
(AP)
Kaiser Permanente, the nation's largest not-for-profit managed-care provider, has told its pharmacies to stop filling prescriptions for Bextra until tests show whether the painkiller is safe.
The decision came amid "compelling" evidence of heightened heart risks associated with Bextra and a similar drug called Vioxx that manufacturer Merck & Co. pulled from the market in September, according to a companywide memo issued by Kaiser.
"The safety of medications that we use in our patients is our prime concern in taking this action."
Med Center to steer patients away
From: NewsTrove.com
"To relieve overcrowding,which executives say keeps ambulances away, doctors at the teaching hospital will soon refuse to treat patients who are not sick enough to be seen in the ER.
The medical center is one of a small, but growing, number of U.S. hospitals to break away from the traditional role of emergency room as health provider of last resort for the poor and uninsured.
Hospitals in Santa Clara, Indianapolis, Houston and Denver also have closed their ERs to patients who don't need emergency care. All ambulance patients and critical cases are seen."
PET/MRI scans may help unravel mechanisms of prenatal drug damage
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"RESTON, Va.--Scientists have demonstrated a new way to assess the potentially damaging effects of prenatal drug exposure--a technique that could also be used to monitor a fetus's response to therapeutic drugs--using sophisticated, noninvasive medical imaging tools. Scientists at the U.S."
San Mateo Daily Journal
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"Soccer is Mollyrose McBride's life - and it almost killed her.
She was one of the best players on the Peninsula, helping lead Notre Dame-Belmont to back-to-back Central Coast Section titles.
Now, she is a shadow of her former self. She transferred from Notre Dame to Burlingame, comes off the bench for the Panthers and has only a couple of goals and assists on the season.
Considering all McBride has been through in the last year, she's just happy to be back on the field.
And alive.
Nine months ago, McBride was on top of the world, scoring both goals in the CCS championship game over Presentation."
San Mateo Daily Journal
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"While we appreciate your coverage of Lamaze as a birthing option for women and their families, the information you published in the Dec. 30, 2004 article, "Doctor Sees New Life Daily," by Stephen Baxter, is outdated and inaccurate.
Today's Lamaze affirms the normalcy of birth and acknowledges women's inherent ability to birth their babies free from medical intervention. Lamaze has changed from being a method for giving birth to a philosophy that provides the direction for women as they prepare to give birth and become mothers. "Breathing" is no longer the hallmark of Lamaze."
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