For more than three months, Nicole Solomon has been lying in a hospital bed enduring severe pain and waiting for surgery that she is unable to get. ...

MONDAY, Aug. 12, 2024 -- For patients with cervical radiculopathy, posterior surgery is noninferior to anterior surgery with respect to success rate...

TUESDAY, Aug. 20, 2024 -- The overdose-reversing drug naloxone can help save the lives of people whose hearts have stopped due to an opioid OD, a new...

Opioids, like the commonly prescribed pain reliever oxycodone, are known for being highly addictive. In 2022, nearly 85,000 people died from an opioid...

THURSDAY, Aug. 15, 2024 -- For individuals with chronic noncancer pain (CNCP) treated with opioid analgesics, problematic pharmaceutical opioid use...

THURSDAY, Aug. 8, 2024 -- Nearly 1 in every 10 chronic pain patients treated with prescription opioids winds up addicted to the painkillers at some...

Psychiatric hospitalizations linked to methamphetamine increased by 68%, while those involving opioids decreased. Data based on trend analysis study...

The Biden administration is taking a victory lap after federal officials inked deals with drug companies to lower the price for 10 of Medicare's most...

Since President Joe Biden exited the presidential race on July 21, 2024, and endorsed Vice President Kamala Harris as the Democratic presidential...

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