State Sen. Laura Fine’s (D-Glenview) bill to ensure necessary medication for individuals with chronic pain was signed into ...

The American Academy of Neurology (AAN) has developed a new systematic review to summarize for neurologists and other ...

Acute and chronic postoperative pain and functional disability persisted among patients who underwent posterior spinal fusion despite multimodal analgesic management.

(THE CONVERSATION) Chronic pain affects hundreds of millions of people around the world. But the opioid crisis in North America led many health care providers to realize they relied too heavily on ...

Most states allow some form of "medical marijuana." It is especially popular with pain patients, many of whom do not have ...

Recent developments, however, suggest that strategies to treat pain are starting to match its complexity with a new ...

Finding the right sodium channel target, however, took decades of research, which was all the more challenging since sodium channels by definition ... pain in a variety of conditions. Vertex is also ...

Dr. Todd Bertoch, chief medical officer for pain ... but there is no set definition for how long acute pain lasts. Vertex isn ...

The proposed change in definition could also help reduce stigma around obesity so that it is treated as a chronic medical condition. At the same time, BMI alone has long been known to be a major ...

For years, medical experts have defined obesity primarily based on body mass index, which measures stored fat by calculating height and weight, to determine a person’s health risks.

Many people may not know that Medicare has covered acupuncture since 2020 as a treatment for chronic back pain. Still, there are specific guidelines you must follow to benefit from this coverage.