Treatment burden is important to patients but often overlooked by clinicians

Often Overlooked but Critical

Case Description A 37-year-old previously healthy right-handed woman presented with sudden onset of left facial droop, left hemiparesis, and headache after a water park ride. She was evaluated within 3 hours of symptoms and received intravenous tissuetype plasminogen activator. Computed tomographic angiography demonstrated right internal carotid artery dissection, and she underwent emergent car...

Burden of disease is often aggravated by opioid treatment of chronic pain patients: Etiology and prevention.

http://dx.doi.org/10.1016/j.pain.2014.09.011 0304-3959/ 2014 International Association for the Study of Pain. Published by Elsevier B.V. All rights reserved. DOI of original article: http://dx.doi.org/10.1016/j.pain.2014.07.006 For more than two decades, Danish doctors have prescribed opioids for chronic noncancer pain more liberally than have doctors in the neighboring countries. We have been ...

Burden of disease is often aggravated by opioid treatment of chronic pain patients: Etiology and prevention

http://dx.doi.org/10.1016/j.pain.2014.09.011 0304-3959/ 2014 International Association for the Study of Pain. Published by Elsevier B.V. All rights reserved. DOI of original article: http://dx.doi.org/10.1016/j.pain.2014.07.006 For more than two decades, Danish doctors have prescribed opioids for chronic noncancer pain more liberally than have doctors in the neighboring countries. We have been ...

State sovereign standing: often overlooked, but not forgotten.

Critics of Virginia's challenge to the constitutionality of the Patient Protection and Affordable Care Act have asserted that Virginia lacked standing to even raise the issue. Such criticism is inconsistent with foundational understandings of the role of states in providing a check on federal power and with the modern standing jurisprudence of the Supreme Court, especially as reflected in the C...

Why is apoptosis important to clinicians?