BEN HOGWOOD MOREHEAD CITY — The N.C. Medical Board has indefinitely suspended the license of a city doctor following an investigation into his pain medication prescribing practices.

BEN HOGWOOD MOREHEAD CITY — The N.C. Medical Board has indefinitely suspended the license of a city doctor following an investigation into his pain medication prescribing practices.

BEN HOGWOOD MOREHEAD CITY — The N.C. Medical Board has indefinitely suspended the license of a city doctor following an investigation into his pain medication prescribing practices.

Jessica Rae Baird was fired from her nursing job at Fairview Ridges Hospital in Burnsville, fell behind on bills and lost her home after taking Vicodin in July 2010, crashing her car and injuring another driver.

Panama City - Traumatic brain injury and post-traumatic stress disorder are becoming the signature injuries of the Iraq and Afhgan wars. With symptoms like depression, irritability, hyper-vigilance, short-term memory loss, and difficulty sleeping, some affected vets have trouble doing the simplest things. But now some vets are finding help in an unusual way. A treatment developed to cure the …

DAVID SUCHET, who plays the famously pain-averse TV sleuth Hercule Poirot, is championing the cause of the billions of people who have no escape from pain.

Two years ago, 28 percent of patients admitted to the Dawn Farm rehabilitation center in Ann Arbor had opiate addictions. Last year, that number rose to 55 percent, said Jim Balmer, president of the organization.

New Zealanders should think twice before resorting to pain relief medication, the country’s chiropractors advised today. They point out that treatment by a qualified chiropractor and light exercise may be the best way to relieve neck pain, according to new research.

Wodraska: Get rid of that pain in the neck By Lya Wodraska The Salt Lake Tribune Published Feb 1, 2012 01:19PM MDT Have you got a pain in the neck? Light exercise and a visit to a chiropractor may offer more relief than pain medication, according to a recent study published in The Annals Internal Medicine. The study was conducted on 272 individuals who had neck pain with no known cause. They …

( University of California - San Francisco ) The amount of data that health care providers and scientists collect from patients and research participants is growing explosively. This information ranges from the genetic to laboratory tests and imaging exams, to medical histories and information about treatment and outcomes — and in some cases to survey data on large populations.