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How best to treat chronic pain? The jury is still out
http://www.news-medical.net/?id=38975
How best to alleviate chronic pain, a leading cause of disability and employee absenteeism, continues to perplex both patients and their doctors.

U of M sets new standard of care for recessive dystrophic epidermolysis bullosa
http://www.news-medical.net/?id=38904
Physicians at the University of Minnesota and University of Minnesota Children's Hospital, Fairview have set the path to a cure for a young boy's fatal genetic skin disease, recessive dystrophic epidermolysis bullosa (RDEB), by using a cord blood and bone marrow transplant. Nate Liao, a 25-month-old from Clarksburg, N.J., underwent the experimental therapy in October 2007.
60% of people in the U.S. age 18 and older have at least one chronic medical condition
http://www.news-medical.net/?id=38878
About six of every 10 people in the United States age 18 and older have at least one chronic medical condition, according to the latest News and Numbers from the Agency for Healthcare Research ands Quality.
Australian dementia sufferers may wear tracking devices
http://www.news-medical.net/?id=38869
The Australian Federal Government is said to be considering using electronic wrist tags on people with dementia; the tracking bracelets would be a way of monitoring those suffering from Alzheimer's disease.
Exposure-based therapy may help prevent post-traumatic stress disorder
http://www.news-medical.net/?id=38863
Exposure-based therapy, in which recent trauma survivors are instructed to relive the troubling event, may be effective in preventing the progression from acute stress disorder to post-traumatic stress disorder, according to a report in the June issue of Archives of General Psychiatry.
New approach to treating vision loss caused by type 1 Usher syndrome
http://www.news-medical.net/?id=38840
A new approach to treating vision loss caused by type 1 Usher syndrome (USH1), the most common condition affecting both sight and hearing, will be unveiled by a scientist at the annual conference of the European Society of Human Genetics tomorrow (Tuesday 3 June).
New insight into the genetics of Lou Gehrig's disease
http://www.news-medical.net/?id=38772
An upcoming paper from Drs. Hidenori Ichijo and Hideki Nishitoh (The University of Tokyo) and colleagues lends new and valuable insight into the genetics of ALS.
Spontaneous mutations widespread in non-familial schizophrenia
http://www.news-medical.net/?id=38736
People with schizophrenia from families with no history of the illness were found to harbor eight times more spontaneous mutations - most in pathways affecting brain development - than healthy controls, in a study supported in part the National Institutes of Health?s (NIH) National Institute of Mental Health (NIMH). By contrast, no spontaneous mutations were found in people with schizophrenia who had family histories of the illness.

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