Gabapentin prescriptions for chronic back pain were linked to higher dementia and cognitive impairment risk. Risks were especially high for chronic back pain patients ages 35 to 64. The study ...

Laura holds a Master's in Experimental Neuroscience and a Bachelor's in Biology from Imperial College London. Her areas of expertise include health, medicine, psychology, and neuroscience. Laura holds ...

Elizabeth Burch's New Book ‘The Pain Brokers’ Details Scheme That Upended Pelvic Mesh Elizabeth Burch, a professor at the University of Georgia School of Law, and expert on mass torts, talked to ...

The decision, made January 5, places Wicked among three titles newly removed from schools statewide, alongside Nineteen Minutes by Jodi Picoult and The Perks of Being a Wallflower by Stephen Chbosky.

Ken Daughty Jr. releases his eighth book examining the role of trials. He challenges readers to see pain as a divine assignment, and use it to discover purpose. Pain didn’t come to destroy you; it ...

The same vaccine that keeps you safe from shingles could also do wonders for your brain, research out this week suggests. Scientists at Stanford University and others examined what happened after ...

We may receive an affiliate commission from anything you buy from this article. In "The Day After Yesterday: Resilience in the Face of Dementia" (MIT Press), photographer Joe Wallace has chronicled ...

Artificial intelligence is helping health-care providers better assess their patients’ discomfort. For years at Orchard Care Homes, a 23‑facility dementia-care chain in northern England, Cheryl Baird ...

Pain is hard to measure. One person’s “ouch” is another’s agony. Now, scientists say they’ve found a better way of assessing pain: putting a price on it. By translating pain into dollars, they’ve ...

Sometimes, a study on one topic can reveal important issues in another. Case in point: A recent Lancet study explored what a person’s life was like before they developed chronic pain — the diseases ...

Beloved children's book author Robert Munsch, known for classics such as Love You Forever and The Paper Bag Princess, has revealed in a new interview with The New York Timesthat he is planning to end ...