Epidural Steroid Injections ‘No Benefit’ for Spinal Stenosis
Another study is raising questions about the value of epidural steroid injections in treating chronic back pain. Researchers at the Agency for Healthcare Research and…
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My Story: Disabled by an Epidural
Every morning is the same. I wake up to the searing pain of being in one position too long. I'm trapped this way, my body…
Anesthesiologists Say Complications from Epidurals ‘Very Rare’
Weeks after the Food and Drug Administration warned of serious complications from epidural steroid injections, American Society of Anesthesiologists (ASA) called the risk of complications…
FDA Warns about Epidurals
Patients who suffered spinal cord injuries during epidural steroid injections are cheering a decision by the Food and Drug Administration to require drug makers to…
Study Finds Nerve Blocks Risky
Sedating a patient before a nerve block increases the cost and raises the risk of unnecessary surgeries, while doing nothing to control long-term pain, according…
Epidural Steroid Injections Linked to Bone Fractures
Patients treated with epidural steroid injections for back pain are at increased risk of bone fractures, according to a new study conducted at Henry Ford…
Pharmacy Linked to Meningitis Outbreak Sold Drugs to Hundreds of Hospitals and Clinics
Over a thousand hospitals, pain clinics, cosmetic surgery centers, eye clinics and other health care providers received drugs from a Massachusetts pharmacy linked to a…
Living with Pain: A Face from the War on Pain
In 2000, a heavy wind shear struck with no warning in downtown Los Angeles, hitting the single engine plane from which Radene Marie Cook was…
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