It works by switching off nociceptors in the peripheral nervous system, and therefore preventing pain signals getting to the brain. This represents a potential new breakthrough in a world which has ...

The lived experience of severe pain, understandably, can lead to a process of catastrophizing, which is a cognitive distortion where patients assume the worst possible outcome in any situation where ...

In 2004, a research group at Peking University First Hospital discovered a mutation in the gene coding for a sodium-channel ...

Accurate pain reporting in sickle cell disease is critical to effective pain assessment and management, but accuracy depends on patient comprehension of forms.

From Friday's decision by Judge Michael Watson (S.D. Ohio) in Sullivan v. Ohio State Univ.: American public universities have traditionally "prided ...

EYCK FREYMANN is a Hoover Fellow at Stanford University and Nonresident Research Fellow with the China Maritime Studies ...

Recent developments, however, suggest that strategies to treat pain are starting to match its complexity with a new ...

University student Adam Ali, 18, had already been caught speeding on a motorway and improper use of his car horn despite passing his test just weeks earlier.

Anxiety can sometimes cause physical symptoms like chest pain and pressure. But because these symptoms can also indicate heart conditions, it’s important to get an accurate diagnosis.

Specifically, patients who received a daily dose of 400 µg cebranopadol for two days saw a 1.34 mean hourly difference from placebo in their pain scale. The drug also demonstrated a favorable ...

He pointed to the work of speaker and Stanford researcher Eric Gross, who reduced pain caused by capsaicin by 50% in mice for their entire lives and is developing a drug. Another speaker and APRI ...

He will also take up a visiting fellowship at the Hoover Institution, a think tank based at Stanford University in California. Sunak, who studied philosophy, politics and economics at Oxford ...