With the goal of informing clinician practice, a new study explores the harms and benefits of continuing and of discontinuing the long-term prescription of opioid medicines to adults with chronic pain ...

Chronic pain is complex and difficult to treat. Prescribing opioid pain medications has become controversial but may help ...

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Procedure is simple and could be adopted by most U.S. hospitals Roughly 2 million people in the U.S. live with limb loss; number is expected to rise Senior author, a retired U.S. Army colonel, ...

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Drugs that can prevent or relieve migraine attacks are only effective for some people. Research is starting to untangle the ...

Stanford scientists discovered that a harmless skin bacterium triggers a powerful immune response. By tweaking a bacterial ...

Shares of Vertex Pharmaceuticals Inc. surged ahead of Friday’s market open after the Food and Drug Administration approved the company’s non-opioid pain treatment. It’s the first new class ...

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On a quiet summer evening in June 1990, Pico Iyer sat in his family home in Santa Barbara, Calif., when suddenly, he was surrounded by walls of flames five stories high.

States need to change who sits on professional licensing boards, make them advisory to an accountable government official, or ...