An estimated one in five Americans live with chronic pain and current treatment options leave much to be desired. Scientists are now using artificial intelligence (AI) for drug discovery in advanced ...

WASHINGTON (AP) — For decades, patients seeking medication for pain have had two choices: over-the-counter drugs like aspirin or powerful prescription opioids like oxycodone. Opioid prescriptions have ...

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Federal officials approved a new non-opioid painkiller developed by a Boston pharmaceutical company on Thursday, calling it a “first-in-class” treatment that avoids the addictive risks of opioid-based ...

Researchers have made a discovery regarding the TRPV1 (transient receptor potential vanilloid 1) ion channel and its role in pain perception. The study reveals how solvent molecules can modulate pain ...

An investigation of the epidemiology and clinical characteristics of neuropathic pain in the UK Biobank has led to the discovery of a new pain gene and potential analgesic drug target in the ...

A team of researchers from Virginia Commonwealth University (VCU), the University of Texas at Austin (UT Austin), and the University of Virginia (UVA) is now on the verge of developing a promising ...