Effective pain relievers discovered in animal studies often fail in clinical trials, but testing drugs in human tissues first may overcome this problem.
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Human Tissue in Pain Research — A Promising Fix for a “Leaky” Drug Development Pipeline?
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Pain Biomarkers: What Are They, Why Do They Matter, and How Can Patients Benefit from Them?
Pain research leaders convene to discuss the promise of objective measures of pain in people.
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Pain 101—Neuropathic Pain: One Size Does Not Fit All
Pain researchers increasingly recognize that people with pain from nerve injury are not all alike; patient stratification could be the path to better diagnosis and treatment.
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Heard It Through the Grapevine: Can Music Ease Pain?
Researchers at the 2018 IASP World Congress on Pain in Boston discussed how music affects the brain, and its potential as a pain treatment.
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Pain 101: The Latest Thinking on Rheumatoid Arthritis Pain
At the 2018 World Congress on Pain, arthritis pain researcher Camilla Svensson discussed the causes of rheumatoid arthritis pain.