An increase in high-fat, high-fructose foods in people's diets has contributed to a dramatic increase in type 2 diabetes.

After decades of research, Vertex Pharmaceuticals now has an approved pain medication. Can one of the world’s most powerful ...

In the second world war, the physician Henry Beecher observed that some of his soldier patients, despite being injured on the ...

It’s the first FDA approval for a pain medication in 25 years. How does the drug work, and who is it for?

A new study in an animal model provides direct evidence for the role of the vagus nerve in gut microbiome-brain communication, addressing a critical gap in the field.

The manufacturer of AV-101, an investigational, oral nonopioid, NMDA-targeting therapy to treat neuropathic pain, announced ...

trochlear or abducens nerve palsies respectively. CN VI palsies occur more commonly in MS than CN III or IV palsies. Lack of pain Ischemic optic neuropathy, NMO-associated optic neuritis ...

The class is Tai Chi. Frauenknecht started learning the martial art because of numbness in his feet. “It centers me,” the 66-year-old said. I ...

The idea behind the new therapy, which is expected to go on trial in the UK at the end of the year, is that when people lose the ability to hear very high frequencies, the nerve cells in the brain ...

There are several symptoms of a pinched nerve in the neck, and the pain is usually on one side—the same as your pinched nerve. The pain can spread down from the back of your skull to between the ...

The dossier says that Iraq has developed mobile military laboratories to assist the use of nerve gas or chemical agents to maximum effect and with maximum speed. It continues: "Intelligence ...

To diagnose the source of back pain, your healthcare provider will perform a physical exam, ask questions about where it hurts and when. If your healthcare provider thinks there is facet joint ...