Expensive Arthritis Treatment No Better Than Steroid Therapy - SMTP

http://tinyurl.com/b3c3vf2 - Pain in the elderly

Drug selection in pain management depends heavily on an individual's physiological factors. Medications may linger longer in the bodies of older adults due to age-related changes in physiological function. These changes include decline in metabolism ...

Fibromyalgia and the Brain: New Clues Reveal How Pain and Therapies are Processed

According to research presented this week at the American College of Rheumatology Annual Meeting in Washington, D.C., pain experienced by people with fibromyalgia may be caused by a problem with the way pain stimuli are processed in the brain. Abnormal pain signal processing may also be related to a lack of responsiveness to opioids, a common class of pain relievers.

Expensive Arthritis Treatment No Better Than Steroid Therapy

A randomized, double-blind clinical trial by researchers at Hospital for Special Surgery has rev ealed that corticosteroids are more effective than the more expensive treatment in providing pain relief to patients with thumb arthritis.