Buprenorphine effectively alleviates pain in patients who have failed on all other modalities

Duodenal switch is a safe operation for patients who have failed other bariatric operations.

BACKGROUND The incidence of morbid obesity and its surgical treatment have been increasing over the last few years. With this increase, there has been a rise in the number of patients who have had less than desirable outcome after bariatric operations. We perform the duodenal switch (DS) in patients for whom other weight loss surgical procedures have failed, because of inadequate weight loss, w...

Attribution Bias in schizophrenian patients who have auditory hallucination

Introduction: Concerning cognitivism, psychotic experiences (hallucination) of schizophrenic patiets have been hypothesized to originate from a fundamentally cognitive biases. Methods: To explor the idea that attribution bias may underlin appearance of auditory hallucination, in the current descriptive study, a source-monitoring task were used to compare healthy controles with relatives of indi...

Management of men diagnosed with chronic prostatitis/chronic pelvic pain syndrome who have failed traditional management.

For many patients, the traditional biomedical model that physicians have used to manage chronic prostatitis does not work. This article describes innovative treatment strategies for chronic prostatitis/chronic pelvic pain syndrome, with an emphasis on novel biomedical physical therapy and biopsychosocial approaches to the management of individualized patient symptoms.

All patients with dementia should have pain relief.

Vagus nerve stimulation versus “best drug therapy” in epilepsy patients who have failed best drug therapy

Vagus nerve stimulation versus ''best drug therapy'' in epilepsy patients who have failed best drug therapy I would like to thank Dr. Hoppe and colleagues for their recent study published in Seizure examining vagus nerve stimulation (VNS) versus ''best drug therapy'' in medically refractory epilepsy patients. 1 However, I have concerns regarding the authors' methodology and conclusions. In this...