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Personality traits contribute to 'placebo effect'

Medicine & Health / Neuroscience

created Apr 23, 2009 | popularity 4.6 / 5 (7) | comments 0

(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, ...


Exercise more, not less, to ease aching back

Exercise more, not less, to ease aching back

Medicine & Health / Health

created Jun 02, 2009 | popularity 4.7 / 5 (6) | comments 1

People with lower back pain are better off exercising more, not less.


FDA cracks down on ibuprofen pain relief gels

Medicine & Health / Medications

created Aug 20, 2009 | popularity 5 / 5 (2) | comments 0

(AP) -- The Food and Drug Administration has issued warnings to eight companies for illegally marketing pain relief ointments containing ibuprofen.


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Chocolate, water reduce pain response to heat

Medicine & Health / Neuroscience

created Oct 13, 2009 | popularity 5 / 5 (2) | comments 0

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 ...


Antioxidants offer pain relief in patients with chronic pancreatitis

Medicine & Health / Diseases

created Jan 01, 2009 | popularity 5 / 5 (1) | comments 2

Antioxidant supplementation was found to be effective in relieving pain and reducing levels of oxidative stress in patients with chronic pancreatitis (CP), reports a new study in Gastroenterology. CP is a progressive inflam ...


Etoricoxib provides long lasting pain relief after surgery

Medicine & Health / Medications

created Apr 15, 2009 | popularity 5 / 5 (1) | comments 0

Oral etoricoxib is at least as effective as other drugs commonly used for pain relief after surgery. A Cochrane Systematic Review has confirmed the effectiveness of the drug, which is sold under the brand name of Arcoxia.


Researchers show how morphine can be given more effectively

Medicine & Health / Research

created Apr 27, 2009 | popularity 5 / 5 (1) | comments 0

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 ...


Codeine not safe for all breastfeeding moms and their babies

Medicine & Health / Health

created Aug 20, 2008 | popularity 4 / 5 (1) | comments 0

Using pain treatments which contain codeine may be risky for some breastfeeding mothers, according to researchers at The University of Western Ontario, and the Hospital for Sick Children (SickKids) in Toronto. Lead author ...


Metastatic bone disease patients can walk in Lazarus' footsteps

Medicine & Health / Other

created Mar 09, 2009 | popularity not rated yet | comments 1

Osteoplasty—a highly effective minimally invasive procedure to treat the painful effects of metastatic bone disease by injecting bone cement to support weakened bones—provides immediate and substantial pain relief, often ...


Pain relief only one motive for opioid use among high school seniors

Medicine & Health / Other

created Aug 03, 2009 | popularity not rated yet | comments 1

Taking opioid drugs without a prescription appears relatively common among high school seniors, according to a report in the August issue of Archives of Pediatrics & Adolescent Medicine. The most common reasons survey respon ...


Tiny pump means pain relief for big cats

Tiny pump means pain relief for big cats

Biology / Plants & Animals

created Sep 01, 2009 | popularity not rated yet | comments 1

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: ...


Could the Hot Stuff in Chili Peppers Ease Your Tingling Nerve Pain?

Medicine & Health / Research

created Oct 14, 2009 | popularity not rated yet | comments 0

(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 ...


Seeing is relieving: New hope for chronic pain sufferers

Medicine & Health / Neuroscience

created Oct 29, 2009 | popularity not rated yet | comments 0

An f1000 evaluation examines how pain relief improves greatly when the sufferer can actually see the area where the pain is occurring.