How Do Long Term Oral Pain Killers Enhance Pain and Promote Chronic Pain?

How Do Pain Genes Affect Pain Experience?

Pain genetics is a relatively young field in pain research, and it faced much skepticism from both pain scientists studying basic mechanisms of pain who were unfamiliar with genetic approaches and human geneticists who considered pain to be too subjective, too immeasurable, and too unstable to be regarded as a genetic trait. Just ten years ago, we, the authors, had to defend our ground and grad...

Long-Term Opioid Therapy for Chronic Pain.

Long-term Postthoracotomy Pain

metabolic factors,― including hypoxemiaand a high normal theophylline level, had caused the seizure. One year later a bronchopleural fistula developed at the bronchial stump ofa prior upper lobectomy (performed for control of cavitary MA! infection ten years previously). Hospitalization ensued, and the patient was treated for lower lobe pneumonia with cefuroxime. An infectious disease consult...

How short-term gain can lead to long-term pain

For the commercial success of advanced therapies including CAR-T, they must not only be safe and effective, but also consistently produced and delivered to patients at a cost substantially less than the reimbursable rate. Regardless of whether your therapy is allogeneic or autologous, initial protocols are usually developed using laboratory equipment and skilled research staff completing asepti...

How do babies feel pain?

Functional MRI studies suggest that healthy full-term newborn babies experience some aspects of pain in a similar way to adults.