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| pain management
Reduced Pain for Preterm Infants with the Help of Skin Contact
For preterm infants in the newborn intensive care unit (NICU), skin-to-skin contact with the mother – sometimes called "kangaroo care"– reduces pain from repeated painful...
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| ketamine
An Alternative to Opioids—and Often Mislabeled as One—Ketamine
Ketamine has gotten a bad rap as an opioid when there’s plenty of evidence suggesting it isn’t one, Johns Hopkins experts say. They believe...
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| postsurgical pain management
Pain Medication Use Not an Optimal Indicator for Predicting Risks
An opioid use score based on state prescription databases does not predict complications or other...
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| women's health
Pregnancy and Pain Management: New Mothers and Painkiller Use
Nearly half of American women having a baby in the last decade received a prescription for a powerful opioid painkiller as part of their birth...
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| research/study
"New Type of Immunity" Using Pain Sensing Skin Nerves?
Pinch yourself. If you feel pain, it’s thanks to specialized nerve endings in the skin. And, in a surprising discovery, researchers at...
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| joint replacement
Gut Health Affects Infection During Knee, Hip Replacement
Having healthy gut flora – the trillions of bacteria housed in our intestines – could lower the risk of infection following knee and hip replacement...
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