In World War II, the physician Henry Beecher observed that some of his soldier patients, despite being injured on the ...

Vertex Pharmaceuticals Incorporated (Nasdaq: VRTX) today announced that the U.S. Food and Drug Administration (FDA) has ...

A network of nerves similar to wires runs all through the human body, from the tips of your fingers and toes, through your back inside the spinal cord and up to your brain. Specialized pain receptors ...

Specialized pain receptors called nociceptors can be found at the end of the nerves on your skin, muscles, joints and internal organs. Each nociceptor is designed to activate its nerve if it ...

Can fish feel pain? The debate rages among scientists as to whether fish do, in fact, feel pain or are just reacting ...

For a person to feel pain, sensory neurons called nociceptors detect painful stimuli and then send a signal to the brain for interpretation. These painful stimuli include extreme temperatures ...

The faster, A-delta nociceptors fire the first wave of signal, which races at 20 m/s up thousands of densely-bundled nerve fibers and ultimately to your brain. That causes the sharp, sudden pain ...

and this depolarization of nociceptors is considered to be responsible for the pain associated with this condition. 1 Disruption of this electrophysiological phenomenon might, therefore ...

The FDA has approved Journavx, an oral medication for treating pain that doesn't target the brain like addictive opioids.

The results of this study suggest that delivery of a lidocaine derivative together with a TRPV1 receptor agonist selectively inhibits nociceptors to produce a long-lasting decrease in pain without ...