Pain control is one of the biggest challenges facing America today, believes Dr. Peter Staats, co-founder and chief medical officer of electroCore. Chronic pain is an ongoing, debilitating problem for many patients, but for some, overuse of opioid treatments has led to addiction. Such a condition has led to an increasing number of U.S. deaths—one study published in th
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The U.S. Centers for Disease Control and Prevention (CDC) is putting $2.1 million behind a study to be conducted by Johns Hopkins researchers, using technology developed by a Baltimore startup.
The study is designed to see if financial incentives improve the likelihood that patients recovering from opioid use disorder stick to their medication plans. Emocha Mobile Health, a Baltimore health tech
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BRONX, NY—(January 17, 2019)—In a study published online today in the journal Science, researchers atAlbert Einstein College of Medicine, part ofMontefiore, prove for the first time that the brain’s cerebellum—long thought to be mainly involved in coordinating movement—helps control the brain’s reward circuitry. The surprising finding indicates that the cerebell
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Contemporary racism in the United States contributes to health, mental health, and substance use disorder (SUD) disparities among People of Color (POC) compared with White individuals. Despite entering into substance use treatment with a greater severity o… (Source: SafetyLit)
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Sublocade, a monthly injectable alternative to the widely used opioid treatment Suboxone, has been approved by Health Canada after a small but so far successful run in the U.S. (Source: CBC | Health)MedWorm Message: Have you tried our new medical search engine? More powerful than before. Log on with your social media account. 100% free.
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