A new and potentially safer opioid has been tested in lab rats, and the results suggest it relieves pain with a lower risk of ...

A retrospective study presented at the 51st Annual Regional Anesthesiology and Acute Pain Medicine Meeting by investigators at Hospital for Special Surgery (HSS), the world’s leading academic medical ...

This article examines emerging non-opioid strategies for chronic pain, from targeted ion-channel drugs and anti-inflammatory ...

Placebo effects, in which patients experience relief without therapeutic treatment, increasingly have been considered as ...

Researchers at UTD's Center for Advanced Pain Studies are making progress on ways to treat persistent pain without opioids, ...

A p75 neurotrophin receptor fusion protein reduces pain and improves function in patients with knee osteoarthritis across all tested doses and shows favorable safety outcomes in a phase 2 trial.

An experimental opioid alternative called DFNZ achieved effective pain relief in mice without addiction risk or breathing ...

A major analysis of nearly 10,000 patients shows that simple, non-drug treatments like knee braces, hydrotherapy, and exercise can significantly ease knee osteoarthritis symptoms. These approaches not ...

People prescribed gabapentinoids -- gabapentin or pregabalin -- had a higher risk of drug poisoning soon after they started ...

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