The revised and expanded pain treatment guidelines that the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention (CDC) published today mention "patient abandonment" eight times. They also include two ...

The CDC 2016 Opioid Prescribing Advice, which has caused so much hardship to so many pain patients, has been tossed out and replaced by a revised document. Is it better? Sure looks that way. Imagine ...

On Feb. 10, the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention (CDC) published its draft CDC Practice Guideline for Prescribing Opioids. It represents a welcome, long overdue, and desperately needed ...

We were unable to process your request. Please try again later. If you continue to have this issue please contact [email protected]. Back to Healio Following the release of opioid ...

A retrospective, qualitative cohort study concludes that patients with sickle cell disease (SCD) may have been negatively impacted by the 2016 CDC guidance. The 2016 CDC Guideline for Opioid ...

After the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention released a guideline for prescribing opioids to patients experiencing chronic pain in 2016, the prescribing rate of non-opioid pain medication ...

The FDA has at this time received 79 comments for its "Morphine Milligram Equivalents: Current Applications and Knowledge Gaps, Research Opportunities, and Future Directions; Public Workshop." Here is ...

From 2004 to 2016, illnesses from mosquito, tick and flea bites tripled in the U.S., with 642,602 cases reported during the 13-year period, according to a CDC report released May 1. The report is the ...

Over the past several years, our government has taken control of doctors’ prescription pads. In an attempt to reduce opioid overdose deaths, lawmakers placed hard quantitative limits on the maximum ...

Dear Centers for Disease Control and Prevention (CDC), While I appreciate your concern about preventing fetal alcohol spectrum disorders (FASD) and other related health issues associated with drinking ...