Placebo Effect's Neural Activity Photographed for First Time
Spinal PlaceboPain relief through the placebo effect may take place in spinal cord cellsSussex PhysioResearchers used fMRI scans to spot the placebo effect at work in specific spinal cord cells...
View ArticleNew Pain Pills Made From Sea-Snail Spit Could Be More Powerful than Morphine
Call it a new form of rapture of the deep. Chemicals from sea snail saliva can be made into pain pills that work as well as morphine, but without the risk of addiction, a new study says.Researchers...
View ArticleNew Drug Kills Pain by Boosting Body's Naturally Occurring Marijuana-Like...
Medical MarijuanaIf only all medicines had such fun names.Wikimedia CommonsIn a boon for pain research, American and Italian scientists say they have found a new drug that allows a marijuana-like...
View ArticlePlacebo Effect's Neural Activity Photographed for First Time
Spinal Placebo Pain relief through the placebo effect may take place in spinal cord cells Sussex Physio Medicine has increasingly looked to the placebo effect's seemingly mysterious power to make...
View ArticleNew Pain Pills Made From Sea-Snail Spit Could Be More Powerful than Morphine
Snail Spit Chemicals from the saliva of marine cone snails can be used to make a powerful painkiller. Wikimedia Commons Call it a new form of rapture of the deep. Chemicals from sea snail saliva can...
View ArticleNew Drug Kills Pain by Boosting Body's Naturally Occurring Marijuana-Like...
Medical Marijuana If only all medicines had such fun names. Wikimedia Commons In a boon for pain research, American and Italian scientists say they have found a new drug that allows a marijuana-like...
View ArticleThe Rise Of Overdose Deaths In Rural America
Age-Adjusted Death Rates From Drug Poisoning Per 10,000 People Rossen et al. Over the past few decades, the rate of people dying by drug overdose in the U.S. has risen dramatically. Drug overdose has...
View ArticleScience's Latest Efforts To Make Addiction-Proof Painkillers
New And Old OxyContin Pills 80-milligram tablets of the current OxyContin formula (left) and the previous OxyContin formula (right) U.S. Drug Enforcement Administration Can you make prescription...
View ArticleCDC Maps Show Which States Prescribe The Most Opioids
Pills of the Opioid Painkiller OxyContin U.S. Drug Enforcement Administration Doctors in Alabama give out almost three times as many opioid painkiller prescriptions as doctors in Hawaii. Doctors in...
View ArticlePlacebo Effect's Neural Activity Photographed for First Time
Medicine has increasingly looked to the placebo effect's seemingly mysterious power to make people feel better in the absence of painkillers or pharmaceutical drugs. Now…
View ArticleNew Pain Pills Made From Sea-Snail Spit Could Be More Powerful than Morphine
Call it a new form of rapture of the deep. Chemicals from sea snail saliva can be made into pain pills that work as well as morphine, but without the risk of addiction, a new…
View ArticleNew Drug Kills Pain by Boosting Body's Naturally Occurring Marijuana-Like...
In a boon for pain research, American and Italian scientists say they have found a new drug that allows a marijuana-like substance to control pain at a specific site in the…
View ArticleThe Rise Of Overdose Deaths In Rural America
Over the past few decades, the rate of people dying by drug overdose in the U.S. has risen dramatically. Drug overdose has become one of the leading causes of injury deaths…
View ArticleScience's Latest Efforts To Make Addiction-Proof Painkillers
Can you make prescription painkillers addiction-proof? Popular Scienceasked this question one year ago. At the time, researchers had just gathered enough evidence that a…
View ArticleCDC Maps Show Which States Prescribe The Most Opioids
Doctors in Alabama give out almost three times as many opioid painkiller prescriptions as doctors in Hawaii. Doctors in the Northeast write more prescriptions for high-dose and long-acting opioids...
View ArticleThis Computer Program Can Tell Whether You’ve Taken A Placebo
What’s the difference between a working painkiller and a placebo? Well, you can see it in people’s brains. Brain and pain researchers in the U.K. and U.S. report they’ve…
View Article10 Crazy Uses For Animal Venom
All it takes is a pinch on the leg from a sting or a bite, and you could be dead within minutes. Venom, whether it’s from reptiles, insects, fish, mammals or arthropods, is…
View ArticleResearchers Discover Gene Linked To Pain
A stubbed toe, a sore throat, a splitting headache: sometimes life might seem better if we didn’t experience pain. In fact, pain can sometimes be useful—it’s a way for your body to warn you when it’s...
View ArticleA New Kind Of Brain Scan Can See Your Pain, Literally
Nothing hurts Americans more than chronic pain. It’s our single biggest health problem, affecting the lives of 100 million adults--more than heart disease, cancer, and…
View ArticleNew Drugs Mimic Genetic Mutations To Make Humans More Super
These real-life X-Men are from ComicCon--and are probably missing the mutations in question.Gage Skidmore via Wikimedia CommonsSteven Pete can’t feel pain. Timothy Dreyer has bones several times...
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