Crutchfield is a professor of medical ethics, humanities, and law at Western Michigan University Homer Stryker M.D. School of Medicine. Chmura is a second-year resident in J. Willis Hurst Internal ...

Living with chronic pain can be debilitating. Routine medications are common in pain management, but they often come with their own side effects. Opioid addiction is a significant public health ...

A viral TikTok posture therapist recommends prepping tight muscles before alignment work. Penetrex is an Amazon best-selling joint and muscle relief cream with over 90,000 reviews. The cream contains ...

Once used mainly for distraction, VR is now being studied as a way to retrain the brain’s pain pathways—especially for people with chronic and hard-to-treat conditions. Virtual reality isn’t just for ...

The below is a summary of a story that originally appeared on the Duke University School of Medicine website. Scientists at Duke University School of Medicine may have found a new way to tackle ...

It’s the leading cause of disability and one of the most costly health challenges of our time: chronic lower back pain. Yet effective and safe treatments are few and far between, leading patients to ...

A widely prescribed opioid painkiller showed limited effectiveness and increased risk of negative effects in a new analysis published in BMJ Evidence-Based Medicine. The study examined tramadol, a ...

Allison DeAngelis is the East Coast biotech and venture capital reporter at STAT, reporting where scientific ideas and money meet. She is also co-host of the weekly biotech podcast, The Readout Loud.

A new weight-loss drug that Eli Lilly is testing is helping patients in a late-stage trial lose an average of 28.7% of their body weight and offered "substantial" relief from osteoarthritis pain. In ...