Am J Health Syst Pharm. 2007;64(11):1148-1152. Health care organizations around the nation have been working to reduce the use of meperidine as a first-line agent for pain management. Despite the ...

Use of the investigational non-opioid analgesic resiniferatoxin appeared to improve pain control in patients with advanced ...

A new oral analgesic without the health risks associated with existing pain relievers has been proven safe. According to the drug’s developers, it could revolutionize pain management ...

Importantly, the medication is not an opioid, which means that medical professionals now have an alternative to treating acute pain that doesn’t require using a potentially addictive analgesic.

Credit: Getty Images Researchers assessed the safety and efficacy of suzetrigine, a non-opioid pain signal inhibitor, on moderate to severe acute pain from in patients with surgical and ...

The trials compared a pharmacologic analgesic versus an alternative analgesic or placebo. Twenty-five trials enrolled participants with musculoskeletal pain, six with otorhinolaryngologic pain ...

It also has antidepressant properties. At much lower, sub-anesthetic doses, ketamine is a potent analgesic that preserves cardiac output and blood pressure, and has minimal effects on respiratory ...

This laboratory model could be used to help explain certain pain syndromes, and offer a new way to test potential analgesic drugs, a Stanford team reports in the journal Nature. "It's exciting ...

Fentanyl is a potent synthetic opioid drug that was approved for use as an analgesic (pain relief) and anesthetic. It is ...

In the U.S., opioids were once widely promoted through the media and, as a consequence, were often prescribed to treat what were in fact mild disorders. According to the Centers for Disease ...

SAN DIEGO — Results showed interscalene blocks with liposomal bupivacaine and single-injection interscalene blocks with dexamethasone may yield similar analgesic outcomes to interscalene ...

Nitrous oxide, a commonly used analgesic gas, temporarily improved the opening of the blood-brain barrier (BBB) to allow gene therapy delivery in mouse models using focused ultrasound (FUS), UT ...