Chronic pain affects more than 50 million Americans, yet for decades, treatment options for pain that persists in the absence ...

All over the body are tiny sensors called nociceptors whose job is to spot potentially harmful stimuli and send warning ...

The new method is designed to focus specifically on pain-related signals, without interfering with normal activity in other parts of the brain. A new preclinical study has identified a gene therapy ap ...

Methamphetamine doesn't just spike levels of the pleasure-inducing hormone dopamine in the reward pathways of the brain—it ...

Umbilical hernias, appendicitis, gastroenteritis, and peptic ulcers might cause belly button pain. Belly button pain can be diagnosed with imaging scans, as well as blood, stool, and urine tests. Mild ...

Multiple myeloma may cause pain in the back, legs, hips, ribs, and stomach due to bone damage and excess calcium release. Treatments for multiple myeloma pain may range from over-the-counter and ...

Doctors usually recommend avoiding sex until a urinary tract infection (UTI) has cleared up completely. Having sex may irritate the urinary tract and can push more bacteria into the urethra, worsening ...

Do you know what the universal blood type is? Apparently, only one in 10 Americans do. (It’s O-negative, by the way.) How ...