With the goal of informing clinician practice, a new study explores the harms and benefits of continuing and of discontinuing the long-term prescription of opioid medicines to adults with chronic pain ...

Chronic pain is complex and difficult to treat. Prescribing opioid pain medications has become controversial but may help ...

Routine X-rays aren't recommended to diagnose the condition. Instead, GPs can make a diagnosis based on symptoms and medical ...

Life with chronic pain is a tough road and affects millions worldwide. Chronic discomfort can interfere with every activity ...

Chronic pain is complex and difficult to treat. Prescribing opioid pain medications has become controversial but may help some ...

Identifying the cause of a chronic cough can be life-saving. Here we talk to five people with very different reasons for ...

For many, the discomfort of heavy periods or pelvic pain is simply part of life, but it could also indicate endometriosis.

Pain has plagued us since the beginning of humankind, its origins explored in frustrated fits and starts by philosophers and doctors attempting to understand and mitigate it. From his Lyceum in ...

Certain drugs and a host of nonpharmacologic therapies are key to treating patients who have nociplastic pain, a relatively ...

To manage the daily pain, frequent brain fog, and sporadic days of full-body exhaustion, my primary care doctor suggested a ...