As an orthopedic and sports medicine surgeon and chairman at Inova Sports Medicine, Dr. Robin West is no stranger to sports-related injuries. She understands that developing an effective game plan to ...

Journave, the first non-addictive opioid-like pain medication, was developed based on Yale research from the ’90s.

Gabapentinoids are increasingly prescribed as an alternative to pain medicines for nursing home residents, but the reasoning behind the prescriptions — and beliefs about efficacy and deprescribing — ...

Federal officials have approved a new type of pain pill designed to eliminate the risks of addiction and overdose associated with opioid medications like Vicodin and OxyContin. The U.S.

In 2004, a research group at Peking University First Hospital discovered a mutation in the gene coding for a sodium-channel ...

The Phase IIa results continue a surge of momentum in a treatment space that last week saw the approval of Vertex’s Journavx ...

The U.S. Food and Drug Administration has approved a novel prescription pain medication that targets sodium channels involved ...

A task force of law enforcement officials in Louisiana was able to confiscate thousands of pain pills after information was ...

Nov. 13, 2024 — A new study by medicine safety experts found the use of gabapentinoids -- medicines widely used to treat neuropathic pain -- increased the risk of hip fractures, especially in ...

It's the first new pharmaceutical approach to treating pain in over 20 years, designed to eliminate risks of addiction and ...

Patients seeking an opioid-free way to handle pain experienced in the short-term will soon have a new option.

A non-opioid pain medication made by Vertex Pharmaceuticals has received approval for adults from the Food and Drug ...