6+ day, 6+ hour ago   (55+ words) Chronic pain affects more than a billion people worldwide, yet the tools clinicians use to manage it have changed remarkably little in decades. Oral analgesics act systemically, flooding the entire body with medication to treat a pain signal that may…...

1+ week, 12+ hour ago   (816+ words) Hospitalized cancer patients who also struggle with opioid dependence face measurably worse clinical outcomes than their counterparts without the condition, according to a large national study published in the journal Medical Oncology. Drawing on a nationally representative database of U.S....

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3+ week, 5+ day ago   (581+ words) At the base of the brain, a small but powerful cluster of nerve cells may hold the key to developing more precise treatments for chronic pain. Researchers at Washington University School of Medicine in St....