Neuropathic pain is a type of chronic pain caused by damage to the nervous system due mainly to metabolic diseases such as diabetes and arthritis, or to the side effects of some kinds of chemotherapy.

The study covered in this summary was published in medRxiv.org as a preprint and has not yet been peer reviewed. Both placebo and nocebo effects can greatly affect the interpretation of outcomes in ...

Pain is easy to understand until it isn’t. A stubbed toe or sprained ankle hurts, but it makes sense because the cause is clear and the pain fades as you heal. But what if the pain didn’t go away?

A non-opioid designer molecule for treating chronic neuropathic pain by calming hyperactive pain-sensing neurons in the peripheral nervous system has had promising results in a preclinical study ...

July 11 (UPI) --A drug used to treat seizures, nerve pain and restless leg syndrome might be linked with increased risk of dementia, a new study says. Regular gabapentin use appeared to increase risk ...

Cannabis sativa is unique in that it contains up to 150 terpenes with multiple terpenes acting as the dominant species. Some prior studies have shown that the Cannabis sativa plant and its two primary ...

Chronic pain, defined as pain that persists for more than 3 months, is a major global health problem and affects as many as 100 million adults in the United States alone. Besides the suffering, ...