Top-line results from a phase 2 study suggest vixotrigine (BIIB074, Biogen), a nonopioid investigational oral pain medication, reduces chronic neuropathic pain caused by small fiber neuropathy (SFN) and is generally well-tolerated. “We are encouraged by the overall results of the…
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Language Barriers May Contribute to Pain Management Disparities
Obstetric patients whose first language is not English received fewer pain assessments and fewer doses of NSAIDs and oxycodone therapeutic equivalents (OTEs) following cesarean deliveries, according to a retrospective cohort study poster presented at the 2021 annual meeting of the…
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Why Do Some COVID-19 Tests Hurt So Much?
The one time I got tested for COVID-19, I wound up in the emergency room — but not because I tested positive. During the test, as the technician kept inching the swab deeper and deeper inside my nose, I felt…
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Prescription Pad a ‘Lethal Weapon’ for MD Indicted for Murder
A New York physician has been indicted on five counts of murder, with prosecutors alleging he demonstrated a depraved indifference to human life when he prescribed opioids and other drugs to patients who professed substance use disorders and later overdosed….
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An X-ray Like a Christmas Tree: One Refugee’s Mysterious Case
Mohammed Hassan arrived in Canada from a Kenyan refugee camp in September 2015, 46 years old and crippled by such pain that he walked like a man decades older. His pain had grown slowly. It began as stiffness in his…
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