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                                                    <title><![CDATA[Harvard Health Posts by Shafik Boyaji, MD Feed]]></title>
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                                <subtitle>Harvard Health Blog: You'll find posts from Harvard Medical School physicians and our editors on a variety of health news and issues.</subtitle>
                                                    <updated>2020-09-23T14:30:43-04:00</updated>
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            <title><![CDATA[CBD for chronic pain: The science doesn’t match the marketing]]></title>
            <link rel="alternate" href="https://www.health.harvard.edu/blog/cbd-for-chronic-pain-the-science-doesnt-match-the-marketing-2020092321003" />
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                    <name><![CDATA[Shafik Boyaji, MD]]></name>
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                <![CDATA[CBD, a non-psychoactive component in cannabis, is emerging as a promising pharmaceutical agent to treat pain and other conditions. Unfortunately, few studies in humans have examined its effectiveness, and the cannabis industry’s profit motive is driving a wave of dubious claims about what CBD can do.]]>
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                        <category term="Back Pain" />
                        <updated>2020-09-23T14:30:43-04:00</updated>
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            <entry>
            <title><![CDATA[Pain and neuromodulation: What’s all the “buzz” about?]]></title>
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                                            <author>
                    <name><![CDATA[Shafik Boyaji, MD]]></name>
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                                        <summary type="html">
                <![CDATA[Neuromodulation therapies use a targeted stimulus to help people manage pain. This can be in the form of an electrical stimulation device or a pump containing medication, either of which can be implanted in the body.]]>
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                        <category term="Pain" />
                        <category term="Back Pain" />
                        <updated>2020-03-03T15:30:47-05:00</updated>
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            <entry>
            <title><![CDATA[More opioids, more pain: Fueling the fire]]></title>
            <link rel="alternate" href="https://www.health.harvard.edu/blog/more-opioids-more-pain-fueling-the-fire-2019070817024" />
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                                            <author>
                    <name><![CDATA[Shafik Boyaji, MD]]></name>
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                                        <summary type="html">
                <![CDATA[One of the paradoxes of treating pain is that the longer a person takes an opioid medication, the greater possibility they will become more sensitive to pain, a condition called opioid-induced hyperalgesia.]]>
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                        <updated>2019-07-08T14:30:06-04:00</updated>
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