Chronic pain, a common and debilitating condition, often leads practitioners to prescribe opioids in escalating doses.

Neuropathic pain, defined as pain caused by a lesion or disease of the somatosensory nervous system, does not act as a signal to warn the body of damage as acute pain does, and thus it does not have a ...

Background Best current estimates of neuropathic pain (NeuP) prevalence come from studies using various screening detecting pain with probable neuropathic features; the proportion experiencing ...

Treatment with a spinal cord stimulation system reduced pain and restored sensory nerve function in a small cohort of ...

Duloxetine is also an antidepressant, but it belongs to a newer group called SNRIs, which affect certain chemicals in the ...

Vertex Pharma's non-opioid painkiller suzetrigine was unable to perform better than placebo in a phase 2 trial in lumbosacral radiculopathy (LSR), a form of neuropathic back pain, ahead of an FDA ...

Having both aqueous-deficient and evaporative dry eye, corneal pain, or a history of dry eye treatment can worsen quality of life.