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National Pain Awareness Month
September is an important month for anyone living with pain because it is National Pain Awareness Month. For thirty days, the US Pain Foundation will draw public attention to the…
ICA’s New Website
Have you checked out ICA’s brand new website? If not, go take a look today! For months ICA staff was hard at work and are now delighted to announce the…
ICA & UCF Are Working Together to Advance IC Research!
The ICA is pleased to partner with the Urology Care Foundation to support two Research Scholar Awards funded by the ICA. The competition for the 2016 Urology Care Foundation Research…
For Grace: 2015 Women In Pain Conference – Registration Now Open!
For Grace, an organization whose main goal is to increase awareness and promote education of the gender disparity women experience in the assessment and treatment of their pain, is holding…
New Voices of Hope!
This week’s new Voices of Hope was sent to us from a young woman who was in excruciating pain every second of every single day for 14 years. Adding to…
Study Seeks Men and Women With IC
Lipella Pharmaceuticals, Inc. is conducting a clinical study in Royal Oak (near Detroit), Michigan and is looking for participants. The clinical study is evaluating the safety, tolerability and efficacy of…
Neuromodulation Provides Relief for Bladder and Pelvic Pain Issues
Beaumont Health System News. Providing relief from bladder and pelvic pain issues; Beaumont urologists pioneers in neuromodulation. Posted 8/12/2015. Based on Research findings presented at the International Neuromodulation Society’s 12th…
Hyaluronic Acid May Be Effective as a Potential Treatment for Interstitial Cystitis
Rooney P, Srivastava A, Watson L, Quinlan LR, Pandit A3. Hyaluronic acid decreases IL-6 and IL-8 secretion and permeability in an inflammatory model of interstitial cystitis. Acta Biomater. 2015 Jun;19:66-75.…
Botulinum Toxin May Not Benefit Patients with a High Score on IC Symptom Index
Kuo YC, Kuo HC. O’Leary-Sant Symptom Index Predicts the Treatment Outcome for OnabotulinumtoxinA Injections for Refractory Interstitial Cystitis/Bladder Pain Syndrome. Toxins (Basel). 2015 Jul 30;7(8):2860-71. doi: 10.3390/toxins7082860. Botulinum toxin injection…