chronic

Gene therapies for chronic pain?

Gene therapy is starting to come into its own, and it will change medicine more profoundly than anything that came…

America’s veterans and the crisis of chronic pain

Since the Civil War, there have been seventy-four wars and conflicts America has fought in. But as bad as previous…

a new hope for chronic pain relief

Opioids work through the mu opiate receptors throughout the body and brain, dampening pain signals being sent through the peripheral…

Topoisomerase inhibitors and chronic pain

Topoisomerase inhibitors emerged in the American medical landscape in 1971, thanks to the discovery by Dr. Jim Wang of the…