We live in a nation of needless pain, where tens of millions suffer daily despite the existence of effective treatments. Yet policy decisions and misplaced fears have steered patients away from ...

A new map of a brain circuit specific to chronic pain suggests a promising route to treatment for the roughly 60 million Americans living with persistent pain, according to a study published in Nature ...

A hormone traditionally used to treat bone loss may hold the key to stopping chronic back pain at its source, according to a new study. Chronic back pain is often linked to the deterioration of spinal ...

Researchers used a self-reported electronic body map and found that 64% of patients with chronic pancreatitis who reported abdominal pain had widespread pain, and this pain was linked to severe pain ...

Overdose deaths involving people 65 and older have increased by 400% during the last two decades, with a third of seniors misusing opioids prescribed to them for pain, according to the U.S. Centers ...

Chronic pain impacts more than 50 million Americans, and many patients say accessing effective treatment has become increasingly difficult amid the nationwide crackdown on opioid prescribing. For ...

Prick your finger and it hurts—simple cause, simple response. But for millions of people living with chronic pain, pain is anything but straightforward. It persists without a visible cause, defying ...

A neural circuit hidden in an understudied region of the brain plays a critical role in turning temporary pain into pain that can last months or years, according to new University of Colorado Boulder ...

In a new study published in The Journal of Clinical Investigation, Eroboghene Ubogu, M.D., professor in the University of Alabama at Birmingham Department of Neurology and director of the Division of ...

Once used mainly for distraction, VR is now being studied as a way to retrain the brain’s pain pathways—especially for people with chronic and hard-to-treat conditions. Virtual reality isn’t just for ...

A systematic review of studies evaluating cannabis as a pain treatment concluded that some cannabis products do likely work to reduce chronic pain a little bit. The overall reduction in pain was small ...

Cannabis products with higher THC levels may slightly reduce chronic pain, particularly nerve pain, according to a review of multiple clinical trials. The improvement was small and short-lived, while ...