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Decreased physical activity following car accident increases chance of persistent pain in older adults

Posted on: 05/06/2015 - 18:57

BETHESDA, MD. – Senior citizens who have a motor vehicle collision are advised to maintain a regimen of physical activity in the weeks immediately following the crash; otherwise they risk developing...

Field of Interest: Geriatrics

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Longer-term opioid use in workers’ comp cases highest in Louisiana

Posted on: 15/05/2014 - 19:30

In Louisiana, opioid use lasted more than 6 months in 17% of nonsurgical workers’ compensation claims involving employees who received at least one prescription for pain medication, the Workers...

Field of Interest: Rheumatology

Type: News Item

CDC: Policy changes could prevent 100,000 deaths a year

Posted on: 01/05/2014 - 19:30

About one-third of heart disease deaths and one-fifth of cancer deaths could be prevented if overall U.S. death rates were the same as those in the states with the lowest rates, the Centers for...

Field of Interest: Oncology

Type: News Item

Decreased physical activity following car accident increases chance of persistent pain in older adults

Longer-term opioid use in workers’ comp cases highest in Louisiana

CDC: Policy changes could prevent 100,000 deaths a year

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Decreased physical activity following car accident increases chance of persistent pain in older adults

Longer-term opioid use in workers’ comp cases highest in Louisiana

CDC: Policy changes could prevent 100,000 deaths a year

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