Pain

Credit: ILLUSTRATION COURTESY OF NEURONOFF, INC. MADISON, Wis. -- By electrically stimulating nerves, neuromodulation therapies can reduce epileptic seizures, soothe chronic pain, and treat depression and a host of other health…

AUSTRALIA, Sydney - November 12, 2019 - A new study published today in Journal of Obstetrics Gynaecology Canada has found one in eight Australian women with endometriosis use cannabis to alleviate pain and other symptoms, rating the plant…

Results from national survey on drug use and health for 2015-2016 A new analysis of data from the National Survey on Drug Use and Health finds a surprisingly high prevalence of prescription opioid use among youth. As recently as 2015-2016,…

Credit: Wikicommons / Paul Gierszewski Watching immersive 360 videos of icy Arctic scenes helps to relieve intense burning pain and could hold hope for treating chronic pain, a small study has found. Scientists from Imperial College…

Disparities in pain management affect black and Hispanic women Non-Hispanic black, Hispanic women receive fewer morphine milligram equivalents than white patients postpartum Non-Hispanic black, Hispanic women are less likely to…

Rutgers Biomedical and Health Sciences Chancellor Brian Strom leads investigation of the medications' co-prescription and veteran overdoses and deathsCredit: Rutgers University Veterans who simultaneously take opioids for chronic pain…

Credit: University of Utah A new study published Nov. 4, 2019, in the journal JAMA Internal Medicine details the first comprehensive look across the scientific literature at the role of mind-body therapies in addressing…

How conotoxins can be used in pain therapyCredit: © Markus Muttenthaler Conotoxins are bioactive peptides found in the venom that marine cone snails produce for prey capture and defense. They are used as pharmacological tools to study pain…

Research uses nanoparticles to infuse a non-opioid drug into nerves to provide enhanced pain relief An international team of researchers has used nanoparticles to deliver a drug--one that previously failed in clinical trials for pain--into…

WHAT: Exposure to acetaminophen in the womb may increase a child's risk for attention deficit/hyperactivity disorder and autism spectrum disorder, suggests a study funded by the National Institutes of Health and the Agency for Health…