Almost 90% of people with opioid use disorder not receiving life-saving medication
While the opioid overdose and death epidemic continues to worsen across the United States, medications such as methadone, buprenorphine, and extended-release naltrexone are proven...
Dental pain? Use the anti-inflammatories, not the antibiotics
Dental pain can be very serious and sometimes people need urgent pain relief before they can get to a dentist.
Scientists from Melbourne Dental School...
Scientists find effective new treatment for chronic back pain
Scientists from UNSW Sydney and elsewhere found people challenged with chronic back pain have been given hope with a new treatment that focuses on...
How mindfulness could help reduce pain
Scientists from the University of Wisconsin–Madison found the changes in pain-related brain activity that follow mindfulness training—pointing a way toward more targeted and precise...
Scientists find an important cause of chronic gut pain
Scientists from McMaster University and Queen's University found a gut bacterial "super-producer" of histamine that can cause pain flare-ups in some patients with irritable...
Scientists find too much mislabeling of CBD content in over-the-counter products
Scientists from Johns Hopkins Medicine tested more than 100 topical cannabidiol (CBD) products available online and at retail stores.
They found big evidence of inaccurate...
This study confirms a big cause of opioid crisis
Scientists from the University of Dundee found that targets to eliminate pain after surgery are a major cause of the opioid crisis in several...
Too much or too little sleep may increase fall risk in women
Scientists from the University of Pittsburgh found both short and long sleep duration and poor sleep quality are associated with increased odds of recurrent...
Early treatment could offer lasting pain relief in people with arthritis
Scientists from Leiden University found initiating early treatment benefits patients who have not fully developed rheumatoid arthritis, but who are manifesting preliminary stages of...
Vegan diet could reduce arthritis pain, study finds
Scientists from the Physicians Committee for Responsible Medicine found a low-fat vegan diet, without calorie restrictions, improves joint pain in patients with rheumatoid arthritis.
The...