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Preventing Peripheral Neuropathy Symptoms with Taxane Chemotherapy?

Posted on October 14, 2017

Researchers from Dana-Farber Cancer Institute report the discovery of the mechanism by which some chemotherapy drugs cause peripheral neuropathy (CIPN). The knowledge may be useful in the development of...

Acupuncture for Women With Vulvar Pain--A New Treatment Option?

Posted on October 14, 2017

A new study will attempt to determine the efficacy of acupuncture as a treatment option for vulvodynia, a chronic pain condition affecting up to 14 million...

IVIg vs Placebo: The Search for CRPS Treatment Medications Continues

Posted on October 12, 2017

Despite promising evidence from 2 prior small studies, patients with complex regional pain syndrome (CRPS) are no more effectively treated with...

A Chronic Pain Survey: Homeless Older Adults Living on the Streets

Posted on October 11, 2017

A fresh understanding of the experience of chronic pain in a poorly understood population demographic--homeless older adults--was provided by a study conducted by researchers from...

Understanding IBD and Treating Crohn's Disease--A New Early Warning?

Posted on October 10, 2017

A research team from SUNY Upstate Medical University in collaboration with Erasmus Medical Center, the Netherlands has connected a deficiency in a protein from the SHIP1 gene with the presence of inflammatory bowel disease (IBD). The finding could...

Poison Frogs and the Search for a Painkiller Alternative to Opioids

Posted on October 9, 2017

An unanswered question in the study of poisonous frogs has been why the animals' neurotoxins are not lethal to the frogs themselves. Findings from a recent study...