"The capsaicin or piperine (from the chili or black pepper) activates pain receptors (TRPV1) that create the burning ...

The endocannabinoid system is one of the most diffuse neurotransmitter systems in the body and the brain. Understanding its ...

The brain itself has no pain receptors, but our meninges – membranes around the brain – have neurons that can send pain ...

Before being discontinued, the P2X7 receptor blocker had cleared a master protocol study in chronic pain, though Eli Lilly ...

Most of us have believed that painkillers are the only way to reduce pain after a major surgery or illness. Now, scientists ...

Nurse Rod Salaysay works with all kinds of instruments in the hospital: a thermometer, a stethoscope and sometimes his guitar and ukulele.

New research led by the University of Minnesota Medical School demonstrates that molecules acting as "molecular bumpers" and ...

Treating mice with a molecule that rescued autophagy and balanced neuronal excitability reduced pain behaviors, offering a ...

Peripheral afferent neurons—nerves that send signals from all areas of the body to the central nervous system (brain and ...

Clinicians must exercise extreme caution when administering the antifibrinolytic drug to prevent life-threatening mix-ups ...

Elinzanetant belongs to a new class of drugs designed to target what is believed to be a key mechanism responsible for ...