The narcotic crisis in the United States has claimed nearly 850,000 lives since 1999 with a staggering annual mortality rate of approximately 70,000 lives. An overwhelming majority of overdose-related ...

A University of Calgary-led international research team has identified a genetic factor that may explain why people respond ...

Credit: Thinkstock. A warning about opioid-induced hyperalgesia has been added to the prescribing information. The Food and Drug Administration (FDA) has updated the prescribing information for all ...

Orphan Drug Designation applies to approximately 50,000 Patients who predominantly suffer from severe chronic pain due ...

This public workshop provided an opportunity for stakeholders to examine the current use of in-home drug disposal systems with a focus on removing unused opioid analgesics from the home. FDA issued a ...

The new method is designed to focus specifically on pain-related signals, without interfering with normal activity in other parts of the brain. A new preclinical study has identified a gene therapy ap ...

Am J Health Syst Pharm. 2007;64(11):1148-1152. Health care organizations around the nation have been working to reduce the use of meperidine as a first-line agent for pain management. Despite the ...

Rutgers has granted Tonix Pharmaceutical exclusive worldwide rights to develop and commercialize a novel class of compounds ...

Epidermal growth factor receptor (EGFR) signaling in the tissue around oral cancers both increases nerve sensitivity and ...

Investigators used the SEER-Medicare claims linked database to explore the persistence of racial-ethnic disparities in pain treatment among survivors of cancer.