How Patients Think About Pain May Impact Activity Levels, Study Says
The researchers said their results have potential implications for pain management and wellness in older adults, and they suggest that pain catastrophizing could be an important therapeutic target for interventions and pain treatment.
What We’re Reading: VA Health Care Fight; High Court Sides With States on PBMs; Ezogabine and ALS
A funding dispute over how to account for a Veterans Affairs (VA) health care program is stalling deal to fund the government for another year; the Supreme Court rules in a case involving states and pharmacy benefit managers (PBMs); the antiepileptic drug ezogabine lowered the pathologic excitability of cortical and spinal motor neuron cells, which have a role in amyotrophic lateral sclerosis (ALS).