Certain drugs and a host of nonpharmacologic therapies are key to treating patients who have nociplastic pain, a relatively ...

Developing new painkilling treatments relies on the work of pain researchers to unravel the intricate neuronal circuitry and function.

Despite its unpleasantness, pain has a critically important purpose, designed to protect the body rather than harm it.

Fundamental concept to first understand is that you don’t detect pain – it is a sensation that your brain has created – from ...

It works by switching off nociceptors in the peripheral nervous system, and therefore preventing pain signals getting to the ...

Chronic abdominal pain caused by visceral Hypersensitivity (VH) is the main reason why patients with IBS seek medication. Significant research effort has been devoted to the efficacy of acupuncture as ...

Robert F. Kennedy Jr., President Trump’s nominee for Secretary of Health and Human Services, said he will prioritize preventing chronic disease, shifting funding from vaccine and infectious ...

Our understanding of pain, and especially chronic pain, is far behind where it should be. We don’t know what causes a person with an injury to develop chronic pain, or why it happens in some ...

Robert F. Kennedy Jr. made clear in testimony before the Senate this week that if confirmed as Health and Human Services secretary, his focus would be on chronic diseases over infectious ones.