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There’s a new player in the multimodal, nonpharmacologic, opioid-sparing pain management arena: the antinociceptive effect of green-spectrum light exposure. This potential new tool in the fight against pain works with the knowledge that areas of affect and circadian rhythm are influenced by visually...
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Newswise — A new technique funded by National Institute of Biomedical Imaging and Bioengineering and developed by University of Minnesota researchers allows 3D printing of hydrogel-based sensors directly on the surface of organs, such as lungs—even as they expand and contract. The technology was...
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Newswise — For some patients with a chronic condition, the amount of medical appointments they need to attend, and their length of time, can become overwhelming.
“There are many barriers to receiving behavioral health care, in particular,” says Anna Kratz, Ph.D., an associate professor of...
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Newswise — Tired of living with painful arthritic knees, 54-year-old Deborah Brown’s interest was piqued when she saw a recruitment flyer for a clinical trial on an innovative pain treatment at The University of Texas Health Science Center at Houston (UTHealth).
“My knees feel like bone on bone,”...
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Newswise — As wearable fitness trackers become ever more popular and sophisticated, they provide new opportunities for monitoring training and guiding post-injury rehabilitation in endurance runners, according to an article in the December issue of Current Sports Medicine Reports, official journal...
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Newswise — The idea of measuring parameters that are relevant for our health via the skin has already taken hold in medical diagnostics. Diabetics, for example, can painlessly determine their blood sugar level with a sensor instead of having to prick their fingers. Empa researchers, together with...
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Newswise — ANN ARBOR—Many patients, especially those who are anesthetized or emotionally challenged, cannot communicate precisely about their pain.
For this reason, University of Michigan researchers have developed a technology to help clinicians "see" and map patient pain in real-time, through...
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Newswise — Sickle cell disease is a hereditary disorder that affects red blood cells, distorting their natural disc shape into a crescent moon or “sickle” shape. Normal red blood cells move freely through small vessels throughout the body to deliver oxygen. With sickle cell disease, the misshapen...
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Newswise—June is migraine and headache awareness month. Migraine affects more than 38 million Americans and is the third most common condition worldwide. Despite such a vast number of sufferers, however, significant development of migraine treatment options continue to lag.
According to Regina...