News tagged with pain relief
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Love takes up where pain leaves off, brain study shows
(PhysOrg.com) -- Intense, passionate feelings of love can provide amazingly effective pain relief, similar to painkillers or such illicit drugs as cocaine, according to a new Stanford University School of ...
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Oct 13, 2010 |
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Researchers block morphine's itchy side effect
Itching is one of the most prevalent side effects of powerful, pain-killing drugs like morphine, oxycodone and other opioids. The opiate-associated itch is so common that even women who get epidurals for labor ...
Oct 13, 2011 |
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Expecting the best, fearing the worst with placebo effect
(PhysOrg.com) -- Poor expectations of treatment can override all the effect of a potent pain-relieving drug, a brain imaging study at Oxford University has shown.
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Feb 17, 2011 |
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Chocolate, water reduce pain response to heat
People often eat food to feel better, but researchers have found that eating chocolate or drinking water can blunt pain, reducing a rat's response to a hot stimulus. This natural form of pain relief may help ...
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Oct 13, 2009 |
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Personality traits contribute to 'placebo effect'
(PhysOrg.com) -- Researchers at McGill University have found for the first time that novelty seeking personality types enjoy a stronger “placebo response,” or pain relief caused by the administration of a sham treatment, ...
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Apr 23, 2009 |
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Vibration helps reduces pain in chronic sufferers, researchers find
Rubbing or massaging is often an instinctive response to pain. Now researchers have found that another kind of touch, vibration, can also help reduce certain types of pain by more than 40 percent. The researchers are encouraged ...
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Mar 23, 2011 |
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Better think positive: Pessimism can block therapy
Spine surgeon Anders Cohen puts a lot of stock in patients' expectations of pain relief. He prefers to operate only on those who "grab you by the collar and say, `I can't take it anymore.'"
Feb 28, 2011 |
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Inhaling nitric oxide eases pain crises in sickle cell patients
Inhaling nitric oxide appears to safely and effectively reduce pain crises in adults with sickle cell disease, researchers report.
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Oct 19, 2010 |
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Diagnostic 'guidelines' a barrier to prompt relief for some back pain
Slavishly following long-held guidelines for diagnosing the cause of arthritis-related back pain is resulting in excessive tests, delays in pain relief and wasteful spending of as much as $10,000 per patient, new Johns Hopkins-led ...
Medicine & Health / Diseases, Conditions, Syndromes
Jul 23, 2010 |
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Researcher identifies novel treatment for pain in sickle cell disease
A University of Minnesota Medical School research team led by Kalpna Gupta, Ph.D., has discovered that cannibinoids offer a novel approach to ease the chronic and acute pain caused by sickle cell disease (SCD).
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Jul 22, 2010 |
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Could the Hot Stuff in Chili Peppers Ease Your Tingling Nerve Pain?
(PhysOrg.com) -- Millions of people suffer peripheral pain and other troubling sensations accompanying diseases as varied as diabetes, AIDS, shingles and arthritis. Cancer patients also often suffer these so-called peripheral ...
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Oct 14, 2009 |
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Tiny pump means pain relief for big cats
Veterinarians from the Wildlife Conservation Society's Bronx Zoo and the University of Tennessee have found a solution to the challenge of providing effective pain relief to some of their most difficult patients: ...
Sep 01, 2009 |
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Exercise more, not less, to ease aching back
People with lower back pain are better off exercising more, not less.
Jun 02, 2009 |
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Researchers show how morphine can be given more effectively
Researchers at the Hebrew University of Jerusalem have found a way to maintain the pain-killing qualities of morphine over an extended period of time, thus providing a solution for the problem of having to administer increasing ...
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Apr 27, 2009 |
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Under suspicion: The painkiller ziconotide could increase suicidal ideation
The active agent ziconotide, the synthetic toxin of the cone snail (Conus magus), was acclaimed a safe alternative to morphine when it was introduced six years ago. Now it is increasingly suspected of causing patients to com ...
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Nov 23, 2010 |
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