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Here are 10 recent pain management studies published in the past month on topics including opioid use among the elderly, morphine tolerance and fibromyalgia pain relief.

Nearly one in three older cancer patients experiencing severe cancer pain do not use opioids, according to a study reported in Reuters.

Caffeine can improve painkiller effectiveness by a small margin, according to a new Cochrane Library study reported in the Health Behavior News Service.

Action Products announced it will display several products at the Association of periOperative Registered Nurses Congress next week.

Abdominal muscle strains among professional baseball players has been increasing over the past two decades, occurring more frequently early in the season, according to a study published in the American Journal of Sports Medicine.

Arabella I. Leet, MD, a pediatric orthopedic surgeon, was recently appointed chief of staff at Shriners Hospital for Children in Honolulu, according to a Pacific Business News report.

Clarence Shields, MD, an orthopedic surgeon at Kerlan-Jobe Orthopaedic Group, and Kansas City Royals team physician Vincent Kay, MD, will perform knee surgery on Royals catcher Salvador Perez, according to an MLB report.

To achieve goals of improving population health, reducing overall costs and preventing medical errors, it may be wise to invest in clinical informatics as well as electronic health records, according to a report by the Health Research Institute of PricewaterhouseCoopers.

Florida officials today confirmed the success of legislation intended to crack down on prescription drug overdoses in the state, according to a News-Press report.

Patients from Europe, Africa and across the U.S. have traveled to Rutherford (N.J.) Allied Medical Group in the past year for a form of chronic pain treatment that only seven physicians in the country are certified to perform, according to…