Pain

Placebo pain-relief is reproducible in patients with chronic pain compared to healthy volunteers according to a unique University of Manchester study.

Researchers from the University of Copenhagen have developed a new way to treat chronic pain which has been tested in mice

Through studies of rats, researchers from the University of Copenhagen may have found the reason behind of a large drop in blood pressure in patients receiving intravenous pain medication.

Media reports on chronic pain are focusing on treatments involving opioids and cannabis at the expense of best practice non-drug treatments, researchers have found.

The researchers, in collaboration with a West Coast biotech firm, are investigating an ion channel that may be used to reduce pain.

For those using illicit opioids to manage their chronic pain, cannabis may be a beneficial – and a less dangerous – alternative, according to new research from the BC Centre on Substance Use

A sample of estuarine mud taken 16 years ago has yielded a potential new class of painkiller as potent as opioids, but without their disadvantages.

Administrating methadone instead of morphine is he most indicated pharmacological treatment in the fight against chronic pain, according to a new article