Pain Management

Approval is for children and adolescents aged 6 to 17 years weighing ≥45 kg

Cognitive functional therapy, with or without biofeedback, more effective than usual care for chronic disabling low back pain

Updated opioid safety labeling is based on new data from two large postmarketing observational studies

Authors say patients should be counseled to take opioids as a 'last resort' to manage pain, not to 'stay ahead of the pain'

Both telehealth and self-completed online intervention groups more likely to attain clinically important difference in pain severity versus usual care

Following publication of advisories, reports of local anesthetic poisoning decreased, but reports of lidocaine poisoning and mortality increased

Opioids administered or prescribed in 35.0 and 32.5 percent of U.S. visits in 2016, respectively, compared with 24.5 and 13.5 percent in 2022

Further increase in risk was seen with prescription frequency, with higher risk for 12 or more prescriptions

National health care expenditure growth expected to outpace GDP, resulting in a health share of GDP that reaches 20.3 percent by 2033

Decrease seen in mean monthly headache days and reduction in Migraine Disability Assessment scores