Medications
Drug epidemic ensnares 25-year-old pill for nerve pain
The story line sounds familiar: a popular pain drug becomes a new way to get high as prescribing by doctors soars.
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Neuroscience
Researchers uncover the source of diabetic nerve pain
A new King's College London study reveals the molecular basis of chronic nerve pain in diabetes. The findings in mice, published today in Science Translational Medicine, could one day lead to treatments which target the source ...
Sep 27, 2017
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Medications
One step closer to chronic pain relief
Sortilin, which is a protein expressed on the surface of nerve cells, plays a crucial role in pain development in laboratory mice—and in all likelihood in humans as well. This is the main conclusion of the study "Sortilin ...
Jun 20, 2019
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Medical research
Researchers use lithium to ease pain caused by anti-cancer drug
(Medical Xpress)—Taxol, generically called paclitaxel, is a widely used drug in chemotherapy treatments. Taxol is used to treat cancer in the lungs, ovaries and breast, but it can also cause severe neuropathic pain and ...
Oct 30, 2013
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Neuroscience
New study cites a possible breakthrough treatment in pain management
Damaged nerves can be regenerated with the application of a frozen needle under advanced imaging guidance, according to new research to be presented at the Society of Interventional Radiology Annual Scientific Meeting in ...
Jun 8, 2022
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Surgery
Nerve damage shown to be cause of unexplained chronic pain following knee operations
Patients frequently experience severe chronic pain following knee operations. Although the pain is thought to be due to damage to small nerves, it was hitherto impossible to demonstrate this by imaging. Two studies conducted ...
Oct 8, 2018
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Neuroscience
Discovery of 'mini-brains' could change understanding of pain medication
The human body's peripheral nervous system could be capable of interpreting its environment and modulating pain, neuroscientists have established, after successfully studying how rodents reacted to stimulation.
Apr 4, 2017
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Neuroscience
Treating gut pain via a Nobel prize-winning receptor
Targeting a receptor responsible for our sense of touch and temperature, which researchers have now found to be present in our colon, could provide a new avenue for treating chronic pain associated with gastrointestinal disorders ...
Dec 23, 2022
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Medical research
Study uncovers how electromagnetic fields can amplify pain
For years, retired Maj. David Underwood has noticed that whenever he drove under power lines and around other electromagnetic fields, he would feel a buzz in what remained of his arm. When traveling by car through Texas' ...
Feb 3, 2016
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Diseases, Conditions, Syndromes
New therapy reduces chronic low back pain in large international study
A new study has found that tanezumab, a monoclonal antibody that inhibits nerve activity, provides relief in patients with chronic low back pain, one of the leading reasons why people seek medical care and the number one ...
Jun 19, 2020
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