1+ week, 3+ day ago   (622+ words) Being bored is usually filed under mildly annoying. A randomized controlled trial out of Sweden suggests it does something measurable to the body: it makes pain arrive sooner. Researchers put 114 pain-free adults through a boring video, a funny one, or…...

2+ day, 15+ hour ago   (850+ words) The pain changed how the patient moved. Walking shifted to accommodate it, and ordinary daily activities became difficult. Then a scan performed for a completely unrelated health problem found the answer by accident. Fluorine-18 fluorodeoxyglucose positron emission tomography, better known…...

4+ week, 1+ day ago   (966+ words) An estimated 58.5 percent of U.S. adults with diagnosed arthritis, roughly 30.8 million people, reported moderate to severe joint pain in 2023, according to a new analysis of federal survey data. The figure breaks down into 32.4 percent reporting moderate pain (about 17.1 million adults) and…...

1+ mon, 3+ week ago   (483+ words) For decades, scientists have believed opioid withdrawal primarily disrupts the brain's neurons, the cells responsible for sending electrical signals that control everything from movement to decision-making. But new research suggests the damage may run much deeper. A new study has…...

1+ mon, 6+ day ago   (937+ words) Johns Hopkins researchers have identified a biological process that may explain why some childhood bone injuries permanently disrupt growth, and they found a way to interrupt it in mice using a drug already approved for other uses. The finding concerns…...

1+ mon, 5+ day ago   (1103+ words) More than a quarter of people who received a first prescription for buprenorphine, one of the most effective medications for opioid use disorder, never picked it up from a pharmacy, and the share walking away empty-handed has nearly doubled in…...