Scientists have helped identify a novel drug compound that selectively activates pain-altering receptors in the body, offering a potentially safer alternative to conventional pain medications.

Experts today are focusing on nerves and how the brain works instead of just looking at injured parts when studying pain science. It’s possible to manage stubborn aches by learning what’s causing them ...

For millions of adults worldwide, nerve pain feels like a constant, inescapable electric shock. Standard medications often ...

A surprisingly simple walking tweak may offer new hope for millions living with knee osteoarthritis. In a year-long clinical ...

New research has found that chronic pain begins in a certain group of neurons near the brainstem. In the face of something that threatens survival, these neurons can produce a molecule that acts as a ...

A flexible electronic implant could one day make pain management a lot more chill. Created from materials that dissolve in the body, the device encircles nerves with an evaporative cooler. Implanted ...

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For many breast cancer patients, surgery ends one ordeal and begins another. The tumor may be gone, after a mastectomy, the ...

Medicine now rightly recognizes addiction as a neurobiological disorder that may require long-term pharmacologic treatment.

Men and women experience pain differently, and until now, scientists didn’t know why. New research says it may be in part due to differences in male and female nerve cells. Pain-sensing nerve cells ...