Regional anesthesia may reduce chronic postsurgical pain up to 6 months and mitigate risk for persistent opioid use after elective noncardiac surgery. Regional anesthesia techniques show promise ...

Expert Rev Neurother. 2013;13(11):1201-1220.

A non-opioid drug for ... with moderate-to-severe osteoarthritis of the knee, raising the hope it could become a non-addictive option for patients needing chronic pain relief.

By targeting the underlying pain mechanisms at the cellular level, rather than simply masking the symptoms as opioids do, biologically derived products like HC-HA/PTX3 could revolutionize ...

She decided to defer the completion of her studies due to a recent bout of severe chronic pain which saw the normally active teenager routinely using a wheelchair. Those bouts of pain have come ...

Next, we offer a review of the WHO ladder on moderate and severe cancer pain, and the newest opioid technology and its impact on the management of chronic and breakthrough pain in cancer patients.

Vertex Pharma could be close to succeeding in the long-standing quest to find an alternative to potentially addictive opioids for ... treating moderate to severe acute pain in a pair of phase ...

Decreasing adverse events from concurrent Vinca-alkaloid and azole antifungals in a pediatric oncology population: Patient safety improvement process. This is an ASCO Meeting Abstract from the 2024 ...

According to the guidelines, naloxone should be prescribed with every opioid prescription. The American Academy of Pediatrics (AAP) has published its first clinical practice guideline on the use ...

Severe somatic pain may be treated with opioids on a short-term basis because they carry a high risk of dependency. Chronic somatic pain often responds to lifestyle changes, including an ...

There are no current plans to address a nationwide deficiency in the provision of specialist hospital units and beds for patients with severe chronic fatigue syndrome, a senior doctor told an inquest.

Sep. 23, 2024 — A study of nearly 2,000 former NFL players shows one-third believe that they have chronic traumatic encephalopathy (CTE). Those individuals were more likely to report cognitive ...