According to a large-scale observational study published in the journal Regional Anesthesia & Pain Medicine, patients who received frequent gabapentin prescriptions were significantly more likely to ...

Up to 80% of dementia patients living in nursing homes also experience pain, but many struggle to communicate their symptoms. A new, $2.1 million study aims to test recently revised guidelines for ...

A popular scale for measuring pain doesn’t work, but medicine still has no better alternative. By Elisabeth Rosenthal Illustration by Matteo Giuseppe Pani June 24, 2024 ...

A tool that was once used to examine the intensity and frequency of pain in dementia patients following their death has been revamped to help skilled nursing facilities deliver palliative care to ...

Related: Massive Study Links 15 Factors to Early Dementia Risk The increase was higher among patients aged between 35 and 49, and also rose with the number of prescriptions given, the researchers ...

They scrutinised the anonymised records of adult patients who had and hadn't been prescribed gabapentin (26,414 in each group) for chronic low pain between 2004 and 2024, taking account of ...

Nursing home residents with dementia appear to be less likely to receive pain medication than other residents, even though they have just as many painful health conditions, a new study suggests.

Researchers analyzed audio-recorded interviews with 51 caregivers on their experience managing pain in hospice patients with dementia. Study participants said they worried that their loved ones ...

More older adults are using marijuana for sleep, anxiety and pain. A small but growing number are taking it to manage their dementia symptoms. Doctors who prescribe cannabis to dementia patients ...

In a very small, open-label pilot study of 14 women with severe fibromyalgia, 12 patients saw their pain decrease by two or more points on a 10-point scale after taking five oral capsules of donor ...

Perspectives > Second Opinions Pain Doesn't Belong on a Scale of Zero to 10 — The real answer is long, complicated, and not measurable in this one-dimensional way by Elisabeth Rosenthal, MD, KFF ...