Experts highlight “nociplastic pain,” a newly defined pain mechanism changing how chronic pain is understood and treated Many chronic pain patients suffer not from damage, but from a sensitized ...

For decades, statins have been the quiet workhorses of cardiology, cutting heart attack and stroke risk for millions while ...

Trigeminal neuralgia (TN) is a debilitating, chronic syndrome that causes sudden, severe, electric shock-like pain in the face, according to a news release from University Hospitals. While TN ...

Products with THC reduced pain a little across multiple trials, but those that were mostly CBD didn't outperform placebos.

How many innocent lives must be harmed before the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention changes course on prescription opioids? The CDC recently released opioid guidelines, a recommendation for ...

Measuring treatment success in Sjögren's disease requires more than tracking systemic disease activity alone. Fatigue, pain, ...

A shortage of prescription opioids is causing people with severe pain to scramble to find their medicine, Long Island doctors and pharmacists say. The federal government over the past decade ...

Parsonage-Turner syndrome (neuralgic amyotrophy) is a possibility, but there are other neurological causes of shoulder pain. I suggest a visit to a neurologist, who may order nerve studies (such as an ...

Excessive pain treatments harm patients and cost the province millions of dollars per year. Physician Zameer Pirani believes ...

Inequities in health care are pervasive, from access to quality of care, and a new study finds that common opioids such as codeine and morphine are more often prescribed to white patients than to ...