National Institutes of Health (NIH) scientists report that a first-in-human clinical trial of a new therapy based on the ...

RTX is a non-addictive pain therapy derived from a cactus-like plant.

These risks are greater when cannabis is prescribed by a doctor who doesn’t regularly manage the patient’s chronic pain or ...

With a mounting opioid epidemic at full force and relatively few alternative pain medications available to ... given the complexity of the Cannabis plant from which these products are obtained.

The U.S. Food and Drug Administration (FDA) has approved a new drug for the treatment of moderate-to-severe pain that is a ...

Recognizing that chronic pain is a problem is the first step in finding treatment. Start by talking ... recent research has made more people aware of the plant’s medicinal properties.

a California-based company that develops medications used in pain management, is testing a drug that combines derivatives from the opium plant with another medication that blocks addiction.

Molecules from cone snail venom and African plants are ... in neuropathic pain only provide meaningful relief for one in three patients, and all of the current market-leading drugs have serious ...

to identify and pre-validate optimized therapeutic mixtures for the treatment of anxiety, depression, and pain from mixtures of compounds identified within Kava and other plants from within the ...

The results suggest that orangutans use the plant to reduce inflammation and treat pain, says Jacobus de Roode ... that might be useful for human medications, de Roode says.

The Borneo based apes chew leaves of the Dracaena cantleyi plant to create a white lather, which they then rub onto to their bodies. This is the first report of self-medication in an Asian ape ...

These analgesics can sometimes contain opioids, a class of drugs that derive from, or imitate, the natural pain-relieving substances found in the opium poppy plant. Opioids, which are also ...