Given how profound an influence opioids have on the world – for better or worse – scientists know surprisingly little about how these drugs actually work. A recent study led by researchers from ...

New research undertaken by American and Chinese researchers may pave the way for safer opioid painkillers, thanks to the use of cryo-electron microscopy (cryo-EM) to examine the detailed structures of ...

Phase II Study of Lapatinib in Combination With Trastuzumab in Patients With Human Epidermal Growth Factor Receptor 2–Positive Metastatic Breast Cancer: Clinical Outcomes and Predictive Value of Early ...

Endogenous opioid peptides are the neurochemical basis of the anesthetic and analgesic effects of acupuncture. The quantity of acupuncture stimulus can be controlled accurately by using ...

We report that opioids from the inflamed colon activate δ-opioid receptors (DOPr) in endosomes of nociceptors. Biopsy samples of inflamed colonic mucosa from patients and mice with colitis released ...

Everyone knows that stubbing your toe hurts. What makes it stop hurting is the body's main pain-blocking process - the natural production of opioids. Cognitive-based approaches found to reduce pain, ...

PreveCeutical Medical Inc. (CSE: PREV) (OTCID: PRVCF) (FSE: 18H0) (the "Company" or "PreveCeutical") is pleased to announce that the Australian Patent Office has granted Australian Patent No.

Nearly impossible to measure, quantify, convey, pain is a truly mysterious human sensation. For the last 25 years in my life as a neurosurgeon, I have seen a lot of pain and suffering firsthand, so ...

When you were a child and fell playing outside, a single bandage — a placebo of sorts — could take away the pain. The placebo effect has long been somewhat of a medical mystery. While researchers ...