Pain News and Research

Latest Pain News and Research

Avoiding care during the pandemic could mean life or death

These days, Los Angeles acting teacher Deryn Warren balances her pain with her fear. She's a bladder cancer patient who broke her wrist in November. She still needs physical therapy for her wrist, and she's months late for a cancer follow-up.

31 Jul 2020

Namaste noir: Yoga co-op seeks to diversify yoga to heal racialized trauma

Beverly Grant spent years juggling many roles before yoga helped her restore her balance.

30 Jul 2020

Impact training improves bone and muscle health in people with Crohn’s disease

Research from Northumbria University, Newcastle, has shown the important role specific types of exercise can play in the management of bone loss, fatigue and muscle dysfunction for those with Crohn’s disease.

30 Jul 2020

Loss of smell in COVID-19 explained by scientists

Now, a team of researchers at Harvard Medical school says they have found the reason why some people who get COVID-19 experience loss of smell.

29 Jul 2020

New approach shows promise for treating shoulder pain in wheelchair users with spinal cord injury

Researchers in regenerative rehabilitation conducted a pilot study of a new approach to the treatment of treatment-resistant shoulder pain in wheelchair users with spinal cord injury (SCI) and rotator cuff disease.

29 Jul 2020

Computational analyses suggest new pathway for inflammatory response to SARS-CoV-2

Analyses of lung fluid cells from COVID-19 patients conducted on the nation's fastest supercomputer point to gene expression patterns that may explain the runaway symptoms produced by the body's response to SARS-CoV-2.

28 Jul 2020

Injury patterns may help spot differences between abuse and accidents in elderly people

The signs of physical abuse among elderly people can be challenging for health care professionals to recognize, resulting in as few as one in 24 cases being reported to authorities.

28 Jul 2020

OU physician receives $1.6 million NIH grant for knee osteoarthritis research

By the time they turn 65, at least half of people suffer from osteoarthritis, a condition that impairs quality of life and cannot be slowed by medication.

28 Jul 2020

Moderna coronavirus vaccine candidate moves to phase 3 with 30,000 participants

The world’s most significant coronavirus disease (COVID-19) vaccine study is underway in the United States, with a planned 30,000 volunteers. The phase 3 clinical trial aims to examine the efficacy and safety of the candidate vaccine developed by the National Institutes of Health and Moderna Inc.

28 Jul 2020

Ebola survivors have long-lasting severe immune dysfunction

In the 2013-2016 Ebola outbreak in West Africa, more than 28,000 people were infected, causing over 11,000 deaths.

27 Jul 2020

NIDA funding allows Temple scientists to continue critical substance abuse research

Substance abuse is a major public health problem in the United States, with some 21 million Americans diagnosed with at least one substance use disorder.

27 Jul 2020

Antibiotics alone can effectively treat children with uncomplicated appendicitis

Appendicitis is the most common cause for emergency abdominal surgery in childhood, affecting 80,000 children in the United States each year, but nonoperative treatment options are viable.

27 Jul 2020

Study: Female patients with ankylosing spondylitis can still have children

Ankylosing spondylitis (AS) is a complex chronic inflammatory disease of the spine with involvement of the sacroiliac joints.

27 Jul 2020

Clinical trials of hydroxychloroquine in COVID-19 outpatients reported as safe

According to new research, the use of hydroxychloroquine among outpatients in clinical trials, without high-risk factors for cardiac arrhythmia, is safe.

27 Jul 2020

Finding the right treatment for people with IBD may soon become easier

Finding the right treatment for people living with chronic intestinal inflammation, also known as inflammatory bowel disease, might soon be getting easier.

27 Jul 2020

Study: Suicide-related OTC analgesics cases have increased dramatically among females and children

Over-the-counter (OTC) analgesics like acetaminophen, ibuprofen, and acetylsalicylic acid (aspirin) have long been a staple in households for managing pain, fevers, and other common ailments.

27 Jul 2020

National clinical trial to test potential vaccine against SARS-CoV-2

UC San Diego Health and the Altman Clinical and Translational Research Institute, part of UC San Diego School of Medicine, will be sites for an accelerated national clinical trial to assess the efficacy and immunogenicity of a vaccine intended to protect against SARS-CoV-2, the novel coronavirus that causes COVID-19.

25 Jul 2020