What I actually wrote to the editor: Dear Dr. McMillan: Thank you so much for including the article “Managing Abdominal Pain in Children” by Osama Almadhoun MD in the March issue of “Contemporary Pediatrics.” As a physician with fibromyalgia, the mother of a teenager with Juvenile Primary Pediatric Syndrome, and a fibromyalgia consultant for children and [...]
Nov
22
During this time of thanksgiving, let’s be thankful for “wild passionate love”
Dr. Sean Mackey, chief of Stanford’s Division of Pain Management, is senior author of a study that found that in the early stages of love “pain messages were reduced in intensity before they even reached the brain,” and that brain MRIs showed that brain areas activated were exactly the same areas activated when pain relieving [...]