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Many Turn To Heat Wraps To Manage Pain (WCVB TheBostonChannel.com via Yahoo! News)
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" With the FDA pulling prescription pain medications like Bextra and Vioxx off the market, people trying to manage arthritis and other chronic pain are looking for new remedies."
3 Doctors Arrested After Pain Clinic Raid (WDSU TheNewOrleansChannel.com via Yahoo! News)
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"Four people were arrested Tuesday and more than $9 million in assets and $1.3 million in cash was seized after DEA agents carried out searches at several pain clinics and pharmacies Tuesday."
Medtronic pain-treatment device approved (BizJournals)
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"The Food and Drug Administration has approved a Medtronic Inc. device used to treat chronic pain, the company announced Tuesday."
'Vitamin E may ease period pain' (National Electronic Library for Health)
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"Vitamin E may ease period pain reported three newspapers (12 April 2005). The brief news reports were based on a small but reasonably conducted trial. However further research in a larger number of women is needed to substantiate the findings."
Healthcare Business Services Groups Secures Long-Term Medical Billing Contract with Multi-Specialty Medical Clinic and (pzone via Yahoo! Australia & NZ Finance)
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"UPLAND, Calif., April 13, 2005 (PRIMEZONE) -- Healthcare Business Services Groups, Inc. (OTCBB:HBSV), a provider of full-service medical billing services and practice management solutions and future operator of surgery centers, announced today that the Company has secured a medical billing contract with a large multi-specialty medical clinic and pain management center. The contract has the"

Chronic Pain News from NewsTrove
Long road back for White Sox prospects
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TUCSON, Ariz. -- Jason Stumm does not look like a young man who turns 24 in one week. At least, not with a little extra paunch added to his once sturdy build and a few gray hairs dotting their way through a slightly receding hairline.
The affable Stumm jokes that he's not sure if it was his wedding in October or a myriad of arm problems since he was selected 15th overall by the White Sox in the 1999 First-Year Player Draft that has led to the change.
"Rehab puts dog years on you," said Stumm, shaking his head. "Every year seems like it's seven."
Chronic Pain Clues Found
From: NewsTrove.com
"New Clues to Understanding Chronic Pain Found
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HANOVER, NH - Dartmouth Medical School (DMS) researchers have demonstrated that a receptor in central nervous system immune cells plays a critical role in triggering neuropathic pain, debilitating nerve pain that often defies relief from standard therapies.
Their study, published in the April 19 issue of the Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences (PNAS), could help pave the way for new approaches to alleviate chronic and agonizing pain due to nerve damage."
18.03.05: 'I have the right to live the way I want'
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"And that is as immodest as she gets. Her time was far from spectacular, but to say that her achievement in completing the race in Florida last November was extraordinary would be a grotesque understatement. In 1990 she was diagnosed with breast cancer; in 2000 she was told it had progressed to her bones and was given months, a year at the outside, to live.
The Ironman was merely the latest in a series of sporting challenges that Jane has conquered."
Laptops can be real pain
From: NewsTrove.com
"By Steve Friess, Special for USA TODAY
Danielle Weatherbee knows that her notebook computer is her undoing, but she can't help it.
As a medical supplies saleswoman, she's on the road constantly, spending much of the day hunched over her keyboard at coffee shops, on planes, in bed, even in cabs.
The painful result for the 29-year-old from Seattle is the same as it is for the growing legions of laptop users across the USA: Her neck and wrists ache. Her doctor warned her she already has the skeletal health of a 50-year-old.
"But what can I really do?"
Kids Who Watch Too Much TV Likely To Become Bullies
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Emotional Support Lowers Risk Of Raising Brute
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2005
The more television 4-year-olds watch, the more likely they are to bully later, new research says.
Children who receive emotional support and mental stimulation, meanwhile, are less likely to become buillies, according to the same report in the April issue of Pediarics and Adolescent Medicine.
A study at the University of Washington by Frederick J."

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