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 ...

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 ...

Cannabis products high in THC may provide short-term relief for chronic pain, while low-THC and CBD-only products show little ...

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 ...

An Ohio State University survey of 1,004 individuals showed 72%, 69% and 66% were unaware that knee, groin or thigh pain, respectively, can be a sign of hip osteoarthritis.“Most patients do not equate ...

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 ...

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 ...

Patients report less pain, better mobility, and 1,500+ lbs lost. I feel great! My husband and I went shopping the other day for the first time in a long time—with no cane or walker.” — Anita Worley ...

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

Many chronic pain patients cite the weather as a driver of their suffering, and climate change is making the torment more ...

Chemotherapy has long forced patients to choose between fighting their cancer and living with nerve pain that can linger for years after treatment ends. Now a wave of basic science and early clinical ...