Pain
July 10, 2020
Placebo effect ‘could treat pain’
Placebo pain-relief is reproducible in patients with chronic pain compared to healthy volunteers according to a unique University of Manchester study.
April 30, 2020
Researchers are developing potential treatment for chronic pain
Researchers from the University of Copenhagen have developed a new way to treat chronic pain which has been tested in mice
March 25, 2020
Health researchers find solution to life-threatening side effect
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.
January 20, 2020
Best practice treatments for chronic pain overlooked as media focus on opioids and medicinal cannabis
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.
January 7, 2020
Temple researchers identify potential alternative to opioids for pain
The researchers, in collaboration with a West Coast biotech firm, are investigating an ion channel that may be used to reduce pain.
November 20, 2019
Daily cannabis use lowers odds of using illicit opioids among people who have chronic 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
October 16, 2019
Potential answer to pain found in the mud
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.
September 6, 2019
A new study considers methadone to be the most appropriate non-addictive opioid drug to treat chronic pain
Administrating methadone instead of morphine is he most indicated pharmacological treatment in the fight against chronic pain, according to a new article