Neurology News

The FDA in August issued a final rule to establish a new category of over-the-counter hearing aids, which will enable consumers with perceived mild to moderate hearing impairment to purchase hearing aids directly from stores or online retailers.

LAS VEGAS — Clinicians should make specific product recommendations to patients for over-the-counter topical pain medications to help prevent confusion among hundreds of analgesic choices at the pharmacy.

In this edition, blood-based concussion diagnostic tool gets patent; examining the brain’s electrical signals may be key to treating epilepsy, schizophrenia; machine-learning model may predict best antiseizure medications and more.

LAS VEGAS — Antihistamines are not always the answer for pruritis in pain and advanced illness, Laura Meyer-Junco, PharmD, BCPS, CPE, said during a presentation at PAINWeek 2022.

Levetiracetam was safe and may be effective in preventing acute seizures in patients with spontaneous intracerebral hemorrhage, according to clinical trial results in The Lancet Neurology.

LAS VEGAS — The majority of opioid-related overdoses can be linked to illicit heroin and fentanyl, not opioids prescribed by physicians to patients with legitimate chronic pain, according to a presentation during PAINWeek 2022.

LAS VEGAS — Recognition of the fear avoidance model, which is how one develops chronic pain through avoidant behavior, can help clinicians treat pain in patients, according to a presenter at PAINWeek 2022.

LAS VEGAS — Lesser-known cannabinoids are showing potential for treating neurological disease, inflammation, pain, cancer and infection, according to dermatologist Jeanette Jacknin, MD.

Cerveau Technologies Inc. announced a partnership with Alnylam Pharmaceuticals, which will use Cerveau’s investigational imaging agent in positron emission tomography scans to evaluate neurofibrillary tangles in the brain.

Implantable loop recorder screening for atrial fibrillation did not significantly reduce the risk for stroke compared with usual care, according to study results published in JAMA Neurology.