Scientists have taken atomic resolution snapshots of an opioid receptor interacting with a drug. Now they are using these images to design “biased” opioids that block pain without the dangerous side effects.
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Parents worry about giving their kids pain relief. Four out of five experts say it’s OK.
Before travelling, plan ahead in case you need to pack medicines for sleep, diarrhoea, malaria, pain or anxiety.
Trust Me I’m An Expert: The science of pain
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Our podcast Trust Me, I'm An Expert, goes beyond the headlines and asks researchers to explain the evidence on issues making news. Today, we're talking pain and what science says about managing it.
From broken limbs to blood tests, hospital visits can cause unnecessary pain for children. An emergency care pediatrician offers seven easy strategies for parents to lessen this pain.
People’s minds can be fooled into experiencing both pain and pain relief.
New research shows yoga can improve back and neck pain, but can put strain on the body in some poses.
Some emergency doctors are already using acupuncture to relieve patients’ pain. Now a new study shows when it works, when it doesn’t and how emergency departments of the future might use it.
They’re often no more effective than placebo, but that shouldn’t necessarily stop us using them.
Epidurals were developed for pregnant women to address the severe pain of labour. In Australia approximately one in three pregnant women in labour has an epidural for pain relief.
Some of the headlines are alarming but pregnant women and their doctors should not change their current use of paracetamol on the basis of this paper.
Unrelieved pain contributes more to human suffering than any other disease.
We are witnessing widespread abuse of legal, prescribed drugs that, while structurally similar to illicit opioids such as heroin, are used for sound medical practices. So how did we get here?
Combination drugs are considered an innovation of India’s medicines industry but they are not as safe as they should be.
We need to do more to ease the pain and suffering of terminally ill patients and allow people to die comfortably, with dignity, and at peace. This is the issue being debated today in the House of Lords…
Compounds in scorpion venoms that cause numbness could be useful for treating pain. The full diversity of Australian scorpion…
If you’re anything like me, your medicine cupboard is chockers with various non-prescription pain remedies: liquids, pills, capsules, children’s painkillers, formulations that are “gentle on the stomach…
For many years physicians and scientists have been studying people with congenital analgesia, a rare genetic disorder that means they don’t feel pain. People with the condition may have a sense of touch…
A protein found in centipede venom could be developed into a drug to treat chronic pain that is as effective as morphine but without the side effects, researchers say. The joint Australian-Chinese study…
A visit to the pharmacy for pain relief can be complicated. As consumers, we are faced with a bewildering choice of pain relief options. But why? Within the Nurofen range we have Nurofen for back pain…
Principales colaboradores
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Professor and Director Academic Excellence, Macquarie University
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Conjoint Clinical Associate Professor, Deakin University School of Medicine and Specialist Pain Medicine Physician, Deakin University
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Associate Professor of Pharmacology, University of Sydney
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Professor MBBS, PhD, MPH, PGDipEcho, FANZCA, GAICD, The University of Melbourne
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Associate professor of Physiotherapy, University of Sydney
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Professor of Health Sciences, RMIT University
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Postdoctoral Research Associate at Department of Pharmacology, University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill
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Professor, Physical Therapy, Mercy College
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Professorial Fellow in Neuroscience, The University of Melbourne
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Senior Lecturer in Dementia Care, University of Tasmania
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Professor and Deputy Director, Monash Addiction Research Centre, Monash University
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Professor of Paediatrics and Emergency Medicine, University of Alberta
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Professor, Pain Management Research Institute, University of Sydney
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Postdoctoral Researcher, University of Cambridge
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Associate Professor in Pharmacy Practice, University of Bradford
