No parent wants to see their child suffer and untreated pain can have health consequences. But parents may have concerns about use of opioids for their child’s acute pain. Here are tips for safer use.
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Undertreated pain can result in unnecessary suffering and a greater likelihood of long-term chronic pain.
Yoga’s surge in popularity in the past decade has spurred more research into its effects. The combination of physical movement and mindfulness provides a wide range of health benefits.
Studies suggest that marijuana and CBD use might help relieve chronic pain while also reducing a patient’s need for opioids.
Different painkillers provide relief in different ways. The most effective medication is the one that best targets the type of pain you’re experiencing with minimal side effects.
Scholars weigh in on the known and unknown about marijuana and its incarnations.
Palliative care, often misunderstood, is not synonymous with hospice care.
Ending the opioid epidemic requires addressing not only treatment gaps in addiction and overdose, but also inadequate pain management.
For the one in 10 people with a significant fear of needles, getting a vaccination is distressing. This can disrupt vaccination campaigns, but there are effective ways to manage pain and fear.
While the COVID-19 pandemic raged on, the opioid epidemic got worse as drug overdose deaths soared. New research proposes a way to chemically modify opioids to reduce the risk of addiction.
Palliative care is about living well and meeting patients’ goals, but referral can be more complex than access to medical assistance in dying (MAID). Palliative care should be as accessible as MAID.
We can make the case against using medicinal cannabis to manage chronic pain by debunking three myths.
Finding a more personal and expressive way to talk about pain can empower sufferers and may help diagnose some conditions.
There are effective ways to help reduce babies’ pain during blood draws and injections, but they are used in less than 50 per cent of newborns. Here’s how to ease your infant’s pain.
Child health psychologists offer research-based strategies to prepare kids for pain-free and distress-free COVID-19 testing.
Health systems have very quickly pivoted to providing services online, but there is much more to do if we’re to unlock remote healthcare’s full potential.
Studies show the physical and emotional pain of minorities and women is often discounted by both the U.S. justice and health care systems. That has serious consequences.
People with fibromyalgia live with chronic pain all over their body. And not all treatments work for everyone.
Many of the gels, toys or therapies recommended to help kids through teething may be dangerous. So, what’s a parent to do?
How is pain measured? A person’s pain is what they say it is.
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Associate Professor in Psychology, University of Guelph
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Director of the Master of Bioethics degree program at the Berman Institute of Bioethics, Johns Hopkins University
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Distinguished Professor of Pharmacy Practice, University of Connecticut
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Research Assistant Professor, University of Michigan
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Paediatric dentist, Senior Lecturer and Clinician-Scientist Fellow, MCRI and University of Melbourne, Murdoch Children's Research Institute
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Reader in Virtual Reality, University of Portsmouth
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Lecturer in the School of Physiology, Faculty of Health Sciences, University of the Witwatersrand
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Senior Research Fellow, University of Adelaide
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Munk Global Journalism Fellow, University of Toronto
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