Stories by Allan Irwin Basbaum

Allan Irwin Basbaum is professor and chair of the Department of Anatomy at the University of California, San Francisco. He is a Fellow of the American Academy of Arts and Sciences.

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MedicineJune 1, 2006

Toward Better Pain Control

Advances in understanding the cells and molecules that transmit pain signals are providing new targets for drugs that could relieve various kinds of pain--including those poorly controlled by existing therapies

Allan Irwin Basbaum, David Julius