The University of Michigan Health System in Ann Arbor announced that its board of regents has approved the appointment of Carmen R. Green, MD, as the health system's inaugural associate vice president and associate dean for health equity and inclusion.

The Georgia House of Representatives has approved legislation regulating pain management clinics, according to an Independent Mail report.  

The International Guidelines Center, a developer of best practice tools for major medical societies, announced that it sponsoring and organizing a Postsurgical Pain Congress that will address gaps in U.S. postsurgical pain management practices.

City commissioners in Fort Meade, Fla., have approved an emergency ordinance that will not allow pain clinics to be established in the city, according to a report by The Ledger.

Power Liens, an online directory of physicians on liens that personal injury attorneys and their clients need, has announced that it has added pain management to its list of specialties.

A new study, published in the current issue of PAIN, has found that along with well-documented racial disparities in prescribing opioid medications for chronic pain, there are also racial disparities in the use of recommended opioid monitoring and follow-up treatment practices, according to a News-Medical report.

A new case report, published in Psychiatric Annals, has found that stellate ganglion block, an anesthetic typically used in pain management, can help reduce the severity of post-traumatic stress disorder symptoms.

Kimberly-Clark Health Care, a medical device company, announced the launch of CERVICOOL Cooled Radiofrequency System, a device to help relieve cervical facet joint pain.

Arnold Feldman, MD, interventional pain physician and medical director of The Feldman Institute in Baton Rouge, La., announced the launch of the institute's medical travel program.

Nameer R. Haider, MD, director of interventional pain management at the Minimally Invasive Pain Institute in Washington, D.C., has begun performing 360 degree neurostimulator implantations to treat chronic headaches using the Boston Scientific Spectra System.

Kailash Chandwani, MD, an interventional pain physician, has joined the medical staff of Southeastern Health in Lumberton, N.C., and will provide care at Southeastern Pain Management Clinic in Lumberton, according to a WBTW News 13 report.

According to PhysEmp.com, a physician job board, is seeing an increase in numbers of qualified physicians using the site and applying to pain management jobs in the last three months.

A new study, published in the Journal of Medical Internet Research, has found that smartphone-delivered intervention and personalized feedback can help women manage chronic widespread pain following inpatient rehabilitation.

Indiana Sen. Ron Grooms of Jeffersonville plans to introduce a bill in this session of the state legislature to strengthen laws regulating pain clinics and prescriptions of controlled substances, according to a News and Tribune report.

Autonomic Technologies in Redwood City, Calif., has created a device that uses technology based on research conducted at the Cleveland Clinic, which can help provide relief from migraines and cluster headaches, according to a Yahoo News report.

Howard Kornfeld, MD, pain medicine specialist and medical director of Recovery Without Walls in Mill Valley, Calif., is championing the use of buprenorphine, a semi-synthetic opioid, for the treatment of chronic pain, according to a Marin Independent Journal report.

Advanced Pain Centers in Festus, Mo., is opening an outpatient pain management clinic in Sullivan, Mo., according to a Sullivan Journal report.

Chattanooga, Tenn.-based Hollywog, a medical device company, will add 22 jobs over the next 18 months in a $400,000 expansion, according to a Knox News report.

A Kaiser Permanente study has found that men taking long-acting opioid medications for chronic pain are nearly five times more likely to have low testosterone levels that those taking an equivalent dose of short-acting opioids.

Anna Jaques Hospital in Newburyport, Mass., has announced that Simon Faynzilberg, MD, will be the medical director of its comprehensive pain center, according to a Newburyport Daily News report.