News tagged with pain response

Study: Resiniferatoxin may increase sepsis-related mortality

Pain researchers from the Sheikh Zayed Institute for Pediatric Surgical Innovation at Children's National Medical Center have discovered that resiniferatoxin, a drug that has shown early promise as an option for chronic, ...

Medicine & Health / Medical research

created Apr 27, 2011 | popularity not rated yet | comments 0

A safer, more effective morphine may be possible with IU discovery

An orphan drug originally used for HIV treatment has been found to short-circuit the process that results in additional sensitivity and pain from opioid use. The study by researchers at the Indiana University School of Medicine ...

Medicine & Health / Medical research

created Mar 24, 2011 | popularity not rated yet | comments 0 | with audio podcast

Psychologists identify influence of social interaction on sensitivity to physical pain

Psychologists at the University of Toronto have shown that the nature of a social interaction has the ability to influence an individual's sensitivity to physical pain. The discovery could have significant clinical implications ...

Medicine & Health / Psychology & Psychiatry

created Nov 08, 2010 | popularity 4 / 5 (5) | comments 0

Competing motivational brain responses predict costly helping

A new study reveals that brain signals elicited by the sight of someone suffering pain differ as a function of whether we identify positively or negatively with that person and that these differential brain signals predict ...

Medicine & Health / Neuroscience

created Oct 06, 2010 | popularity 4.7 / 5 (3) | comments 0

Behavioral problems in childhood doubles the risk of chronic widespread pain in adult life

Bad behaviour in childhood is associated with long-term, chronic widespread pain in adult life, according to the findings of a study following nearly 20,000 people from birth in 1958 to the present day.

Medicine & Health / Diseases, Conditions, Syndromes

created Mar 09, 2010 | popularity 3 / 5 (2) | comments 0

Glaxo's swine flu shot may give kids fever

(AP) -- The European Medicines Agency warns that young children given GlaxoSmithKline's swine flu shot may get a fever after their second dose.

Medicine & Health / Medications

created Dec 04, 2009 | popularity not rated yet | comments 0

Damaging inflammatory response could hinder spinal cord repair

(PhysOrg.com) -- The inflammatory response following a spinal cord injury appears to be set up to cause extra tissue damage instead of promoting healing, new research suggests.

Medicine & Health / Neuroscience

created Oct 21, 2009 | popularity not rated yet | comments 1

Fish may actually feel pain and react to it much like humans

(PhysOrg.com) -- Fish don't make noises or contort their faces to show that it hurts when hooks are pulled from their mouths, but a Purdue University researcher believes they feel that pain all the same.

Biology / Plants & Animals

created Apr 29, 2009 | popularity 5 / 5 (4) | comments 3

Thumbs down for new testosterone patch to boost women's sex drive

A new testosterone patch, designed to pep up a woman's flagging sex drive after womb and ovary removal, may not work, and its long term safety is not proven, says Drug and Therapeutics Bulletin (DTB).

Medicine & Health / Other

created Mar 03, 2009 | popularity 4 / 5 (1) | comments 1

Research uncovers promising target to treat chronic abdominal pain

High levels of a protein linked to the way pain signals are sent to the brain led to a decrease in abdominal pain in a recent study in mice.

Medicine & Health / Diseases, Conditions, Syndromes

created Mar 02, 2009 | popularity not rated yet | comments 0