Building a Better Opioid
Building a better pain medication, one step at a time: scientists at UNC have made a discovery that may eliminate opioid side effects one day.
Addiction, Innovation, Pain, Pharmacology, Physicians, Research
Category: Pain
UNC teams with Verily Life Sciences to study trauma recovery
The Verily Study Watch will help researchers at the UNC School of Medicine and across the country collect first-in-kind data to better understand and diagnose adverse brain outcomes after trauma.
Chronic Illness, Depression, Neurology, News, Pain, Psychiatry, PTSD, Research, Trauma, Traumatic Brain Injury
Fearing pain and avoiding activities contribute to disability and c...
New research from the University of North Carolina School of Medicine suggests that fear avoidance contributes to disability and pain in children with Functional Abdominal Pain (FAP) but not Inflammatory Bowel Disease (IBD).
Chronic neck pain common among car crash victims, but most don̵...
A UNC-led study finds chronic pain to be common among people involved in car accidents. However, most people in the study who reported persistent neck pain were not engaged in litigation six weeks after their accident.
Persistent pain after stressful events may have a neurobiological b...
A new study led by University of North Carolina School of Medicine researchers is the first to identify a genetic risk factor for persistent pain after traumatic events such as motor vehicle collision and sexual assault.
Acute severe pain is common in sexual assault survivors in the earl...
UNC researchers urge changes to practice guidelines for nurses and others who provide care to sexual assault survivors.
Chronic Illness, Pain, Research, Sexual Assault, Sexual Health, Social Justice
Pain relief with PAP injections may last 100 times longer than a tr...
UNC researchers describe how exploiting the molecular mechanism behind acupuncture resulted in six-day pain relief in animal models. They call this new therapeutic approach PAPupuncture.
More African Americans burdened by osteoarthritis in multiple large...
African Americans were also more likely to have knee osteoarthritis, but less likely to be affected by hand osteoarthritis than Caucasians, according to new findings from UNC's long-running Johnston County Osteoarthritis Project.