
Cold Comfort: Cool Receptors May Ease Chronic Pain

Cold Comfort: Cool Receptors May Ease Chronic Pain

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


New Pain Reliever Proves More Potent, Less Addictive

Use Your Illusion

Does damp or wet weather really make arthritis pain worse? If so, how?

Brain's Own Pain Relievers At Work in Placebo Effect, Study Suggests

What causes headaches?

A Toxin against Pain
For years, scientists have promised a new wave of drugs derived from sea life. A recently approved analgesic that is a synthetic version of a snail toxin has become one of the first marine pharmaceuticals

Psychological Stress Better Predictor of Back Pain Than Standard Diagnostic Techniques

Scientists See How Placebo Effect Eases Pain

Rejection a Real Pain, Brain Study Shows

Brain Images Highlight How People Feel Pain