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…
Can we finally say goodbye to opioids? There may be new pain relief on the horizon.
In an article I recently wrote about a new calcium channel-blocking medication that could be effective in treating central chronic…
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…
Researchers unlock access to pain relief potential of cannabis – The Health information
University of Guelph researchers are the first to uncover how the cannabis plant creates important pain-relieving molecules that are 30…