by PAINS Project | Apr 28, 2016 | News, Treatment Options |
125 million people are in pain, spending some $300 billion on pills, pot, procedures, and natural ‘cures’ to find relief, but are they worth it? Published by Consumer Reports In the summer of 2014, Carolyn Slutsky was walking to a friend’s graduation party when she...
by PAINS Project | Apr 28, 2016 | News, Treatment Options |
Published by Consumer Reports Ancient Romans thought that jolting the temples of headache sufferers with electric shocks from live torpedo fish would make the pain vanish. It’s not clear whether zapping a person with fishy electricity was helpful or if it simply gave...
by PAINS Project | Apr 28, 2016 | Member Updates, PAINS Updates |
Lynn Webster, author of the blog below, is a member of PAINS’ Steering Committee. He is also one of the most authoritative and committed experts in the United States working on both pain and addiction. PAINS has been benefited tremendously from his involvement in our...
by PAINS Project | Apr 26, 2016 | News, Research |
Published by Medical Daily What is pain? Ask a poet and they may tell you the never-ending torment of true love, but ask a scientist and they’ll likely struggle to give a direct answer. That’s because a new studyrecently cast doubt on a long-standing theory on the...
by PAINS Project | Apr 25, 2016 | Living with Pain, News |
By Pat Anson, Editor Pain News Network Does your chronic pain feel like you’ve been hit with a hammer, a bad sunburn that won’t go away, or ants crawling under your skin? Those are some of the choices patients have in a new campaign launched in Ireland to change the...
