pain relief

Join Cameron English and  Dr. Chuck Dinerstein on Episode 100 of the Science Dispatch podcast as they discuss:

Join Cameron English and  Dr. Chuck Dinerstein on Episode 99 of the Science Dispatch podcast as they discuss:

It's not easy being in pain these days. Tylenol is virtually useless, something you probably already know.

For more than a decade, patients who've needed certain controlled medications have suffered from ill-advised, untenable policies the U.S. government has instituted, allegedly to mitigate the ever-surging numbers of drug overdose deaths.

As an advocate for people in pain, I have long been a critic of opioid prescribing guidelines of the US Centers for Disease Control and Prevention (CDC), published in 2016 and revis

Since I am nothing if not subtle, I was perfectly comfortable writing IV Tylenol As Good As Moose Urine For Post-Op Pain Control back in

I recently wrote how Antibe's experimental analgesic/anti-inflammatory drug, otenaproxesul, something that would represent a quantum leap in chronic pain management, ran into quite a snag (See 

We have another entry in the fiercely competitive "I Can Prescribe Fewer Opioids Than You" contest, and it's not half bad.

Taken at face value, a new JAMA article entitled "Effect of a Single Dose of Oral Opioid and Nonopioid Analgesics on Acute Extremity Pain in the Em

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