Activation of opioid receptor uncovered
Study by the universities of Bonn and ShanghaiTech opens up perspectives for the development of painkillersCredit: © Photo: Volker Lannert/Uni ...
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Material for safer football helmets may reduce head injuries
Credit: HRL Laboratories, LLC. Scientists at the University of California Santa Barbara, HRL Laboratories LLC, and the U.S. Army Research ...
Discovery by Hebrew University scientists could revolutionize chemotherapy
New technique targets cancer cells and leaves healthy ones alone; patients would receive less chemo and fewer side effectsCredit: Hadas ...
Study paves way to better understanding, treatment of arthritis
Credit: Brian Bay, Oregon State University CORVALLIS, Ore. - Oregon State University research has provided the first complete, cellular-level look ...
Cannabis reduces headache and migraine pain by nearly half
Credit: Washington State University PULLMAN, Wash. - Inhaled cannabis reduces self-reported headache severity by 47.3% and migraine severity by 49.6%, ...
Is centenarian democratization our near future?
Jean-Pierre Fillard's Longevity in the 2.0 World: Would Centenarians Become a Commonplace?Credit: World Scientific Have you ever wondered how does ...
Fighting opioids with an unlikely supplemental painkiller: Anti-itch medicine
Credit: Aira Burkhart/West Virginia University Pain is a mosaic. From a distance, it looks like one big "ouch." But if ...
Kessler team studies new treatment for meniscal tears in active-duty military personnel
With $590,000 in funding from The Geneva Foundation, Kessler Foundation joins the Musculoskeletal Injury and Rehabilitation Research for Operational Readiness ...
A new link between migraines, opioid overuse may be key to treating pain
A new link between migraines, opioid overuse may be key to treating pain using opioids to treat migraines needs reevaluationCredit: ...
Cannabis found not to be a substitute for opioids
No evidence to suggest cannabis helps patients stop using opioidsCredit: McMaster University (2018) HAMILTON, ON (Nov. 19, 2019) - There ...
TACC key collaborator in new NIH grant to explore chronic pain and opioid reliance
New 'meta-portal' to provide researchers with access to analytics tools and data sets for private, public dataCredit: Jorge Salazar, TACC ...
Scientist receives $3.5 million NIH grant to study pain-relief and cannabis
Credit: UCLA Health Ziva Cooper, research director of the UCLA Cannabis Research Initiative, has been awarded a $3.5 million grant ...
Improving trauma pain outcomes
Credit: Penn Nursing PHILADELPHIA (November 13, 2019) - Improving acute pain management after traumatic injury remains a priority for policymakers ...
Injectable, flexible electrode could replace rigid nerve-stimulating implants
Credit: ILLUSTRATION COURTESY OF NEURONOFF, INC. MADISON, Wis. -- By electrically stimulating nerves, neuromodulation therapies can reduce epileptic seizures, soothe ...
Immersion in virtual reality scenes of the Arctic helps to ease people’s pain
Credit: Wikicommons / Paul Gierszewski Watching immersive 360 videos of icy Arctic scenes helps to relieve intense burning pain and ...
VA investigates impact of opioids, sedatives on veterans
Rutgers Biomedical and Health Sciences Chancellor Brian Strom leads investigation of the medications' co-prescription and veteran overdoses and deathsCredit: Rutgers ...
Mind-body therapies alleviate pain in people prescribed opioids
Credit: University of Utah A new study published Nov. 4, 2019, in the journal JAMA Internal Medicine details the first ...
From cone snail venom to pain relief
How conotoxins can be used in pain therapyCredit: © Markus Muttenthaler Conotoxins are bioactive peptides found in the venom that ...
Opioid-related gifts from pharma companies linked to physician prescribing by specialty
Credit: Hollander, et al, Journal of General Internal Medicine, 2019. PITTSBURGH, Oct. 30, 2019 - Physicians who received gifts from ...
City of Hope’s Betty Ferrell, Ph.D., elected to esteemed National Academy of Medicine
Membership into this academy is one of the highest honors in health and medicineCredit: City of Hope DUARTE, Calif. -- ...