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These strategies for easing needle pain and fear make vaccinations and other injections easier for parents and children. They are simple and helpful for all ages, from infants to adults.
Life without pain might seem like a blessing. But pain plays an important role in protecting our bodies from further damage.
Most medical historians agree that one of the most important advances in medicine was the use of ether to numb pain during surgery. Just who deserves credit for this has been another story.
One of the great success stories in healthcare, a quarter of the UK hospice sector is said to be close to collapse.
How is pain measured? A person’s pain is what they say it is.
Scientists have taken atomic resolution snapshots of an opioid receptor interacting with a drug. Now they are using these images to design “biased” opioids that block pain without the dangerous side effects.
Parents worry about giving their kids pain relief. Four out of five experts say it’s OK.
Before travelling, plan ahead in case you need to pack medicines for sleep, diarrhoea, malaria, pain or anxiety.
Trust Me I’m An Expert: The science of pain
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Our podcast Trust Me, I'm An Expert, goes beyond the headlines and asks researchers to explain the evidence on issues making news. Today, we're talking pain and what science says about managing it.
From broken limbs to blood tests, hospital visits can cause unnecessary pain for children. An emergency care pediatrician offers seven easy strategies for parents to lessen this pain.
People’s minds can be fooled into experiencing both pain and pain relief.
New research shows yoga can improve back and neck pain, but can put strain on the body in some poses.
Some emergency doctors are already using acupuncture to relieve patients’ pain. Now a new study shows when it works, when it doesn’t and how emergency departments of the future might use it.
They’re often no more effective than placebo, but that shouldn’t necessarily stop us using them.
Epidurals were developed for pregnant women to address the severe pain of labour. In Australia approximately one in three pregnant women in labour has an epidural for pain relief.
Some of the headlines are alarming but pregnant women and their doctors should not change their current use of paracetamol on the basis of this paper.
Unrelieved pain contributes more to human suffering than any other disease.
We are witnessing widespread abuse of legal, prescribed drugs that, while structurally similar to illicit opioids such as heroin, are used for sound medical practices. So how did we get here?
Combination drugs are considered an innovation of India’s medicines industry but they are not as safe as they should be.
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Professor of Pharmaceutical Chemistry, Macquarie University
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Conjoint Clinical Associate Professor, Deakin University School of Medicine and Specialist Pain Medicine Physician, Deakin University
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Associate Professor of Pharmacology, University of Sydney
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Associate Professor in Pharmacy Practice, Kingston University
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Professor MBBS, PhD, MPH, PGDipEcho, FANZCA, GAICD, The University of Melbourne
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Professor and Deputy Director, Monash Addiction Research Centre, Monash University
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Associate professor of Physiotherapy, University of Sydney
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Professorial Fellow in Neuroscience, The University of Melbourne
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Postdoctoral Research Associate at Department of Pharmacology, University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill
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Professor, Physical Therapy, Mercy College
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Senior Lecturer in Dementia Care, University of Tasmania
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Professor of Paediatrics and Emergency Medicine, University of Alberta
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Professor of Health Sciences, RMIT University
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Postdoctoral Researcher, University of Cambridge
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Professor, Pain Management Research Institute, University of Sydney