Pain is an unrelenting symptom of cancer that can upend the life of a patient. For decades, researchers have relied on opioids to provide relief while trying to find an alternative solution because of ...

A dramatic rise in type 2 diabetes has led to an increase in peripheral neuropathy. New research published in Nature from the lab of Clifford Woolf, led by Sara Hakim, at Boston Children's Hospital ...

A mesh-like network of cells within mice’s skin plays a previously unknown role in pain perception ... “Our study shows that sensitivity to pain does not occur only in the skin's nerve fibres, but ...

Using a mouse model of neuropathic pain, Li and Tolias reported last year in the journal Neuron that Tiam1 acts to coordinate ...

The USAN designation reflects Okyo Pharma’s commitment to developing new therapies for unmet medical needs in ophthalmology. The suffix “-mod” in urcosimod denotes its classification as a modulator of ...

Dietmar Thal, Prof. Bart De Strooper, and Dr. Sriram Balusu demonstrates they can indeed prevent loss of nerve cells in a mouse model of Alzheimer's using specific inhibitors. "Nerve cells die in ...