A survey by the American Academy of Pain Medicine found that even comprehensive treatment with painkilling prescription drugs helps, on average, only about 58% of people with chronic pain.

In a new discovery, chronic pain has been shown to be physiologically different from acute pain and now scientists have the roadmap for how to target it.

In the ongoing search to find a pain intervention that does away with the need for opioids – and bypasses drugs altogether – ...

Acetaminophen may be doing more than just dulling pain in your brain it could be stopping it before it even starts. Scientists at Hebrew University have discovered that a metabolite of the drug, AM404 ...

Researchers are developing promising suppression systems for painful conditions—even an app on your phone that turns the pain ...

In breakthrough, Hebrew University researchers say painkiller, in use since the 1950s, acts like a local anesthetic; research could lead to better pain management The post Israeli study finds ...

An Alabama man is facing drug trafficking charges after U.S. Customs agents found thousands of pain pills in his luggage when ...

Osteoarthritis causes pain in your joints and can make it hard to move. Although OA can be painful, you can get relief with a number of treatments. Over the counter and prescription medications ...

Although pregabalin is mechanistically similar to gabapentin and shares similar advantages, such as a lack of pharmacokinetic interactions with other medications or enzyme induction, there are ...

The Annals of Pharmacotherapy. 2006;40(11):2178-2186. The mechanism of action of fentanyl is best described by its agonist interaction with the opioid µ-receptor. These sites of interaction are ...