The RNA mimic that Dr. Zachary Campbell’s team designed showed the ability to reduce behavioral response to pain. For anyone who has accidentally injured themselves, Dr. Zachary Campbe... Read more
A team of scientists led by chemists Stephen Martin and James Sahn at The University of Texas at Austin have discovered what they say is a powerful pain reliever that acts on a previously un... Read more
Endogenous cannabinoids (endocannabinoids) play an important role in the brain and immune system. Bern researchers from the National Centre of Competence in Research (NCCR) “TransCure... Read more
Researchers from Monash University have developed a new drug delivery strategy able to block pain within the nerve cells, in what could be a major development of an immediate and long lastin... Read more
Researchers from Charité – Universitätsmedizin Berlin have discovered a new way of developing painkillers. The team of researchers used computational simulation to analyze interactions at op... Read more
A study by UA researchers revealed that rats with neuropathic pain that were bathed in green LED showed more tolerance for thermal and tactile stimulus. A clinical trial involving people suf... Read more
Research on the effect of nerve cell stiffness on sensitivity to touch could lead to new painkillers
For many patients with chronic pain, any light touch – even just their clothes touching their skin – can be agony. Scientists at EMBL and the Werner Reichardt Centre for Integrative Neurosci... Read more
A way to block a pain pathway in animal models of chronic neuropathic pain including pain caused by chemotherapeutic agents and bone cancer pain suggesting a promising new approach to pain r... Read more
For the millions of sufferers of dry eye syndrome, their only recourse to easing the painful condition is to use drug-laced eye drops three times a day. Now, researchers from the University... Read more
New routes to the treatment of neurological diseases, including chronic pain and certain types of visual impairment Photoreactive compounds developed by LMU scientists directly modulate nerv... Read more
The new screening method used by the scientists has the potential to search millions of different spider toxins for safe pain-killing drugs and therapies Screening more than 100 spider toxin... Read more
New global study led by ESMO reveals a pandemic of intolerable pain affecting billions, caused by over-regulation of pain medicines A ground-breaking international collaborative survey, publ... Read more
Scientists hopeful for applications in people A revolutionary gene therapy developed in Colorado could relieve people’s chronic pain, such as arthritis or fibromyalgia but first, it is... Read more
Surprisingly long-lasting opioid mechanism of natural chronic pain control The bodies of mammals, including humans, respond to injury by releasing endogenous opioids — compounds that mitigat... Read more
St George’s, University of London research has found that a drug normally given to osteoporosis sufferers could provide effective pain relief to patients with knee and hip osteoarthri... Read more
