People with chronic pain are more likely to smoke, including cigarettes, e-cigarettes, and dual-use vs people that do not have chronic pain.

Between 2004 and 2022, overdose deaths related to opioid and polysubstance use increased across the United States.

Somatosensory phenotypes and psychologic factors influenced treatment outcomes among adolescents with chronic postsurgical vs primary pain.

Ocular surface cooling devices for chronic ocular surface pain are safe and provide durable symptom relief at 1 year, ...

Gabapentinoids are associated with an increased risk for drug poisoning, particularly in the short-term after initiation, according to a study published online ...

Patients with CPPD exhibited a greater increase in disc calcification over time vs those with DDD, as well as more frequent erosive changes in the thoracic spine and calcification in the lumbar spine.

Treatment with bimekizumab showed a consistent safety profile in psoriatic arthritis and axial spondyloarthritis, as well as demonstrated long-term tolerability.

Implementing subcutaneous opioid options in the emergency department significantly reduced reliance on intravenous administration.

Chronic pain was associated with a significantly increased risk for incident dementia, particularly in patients aged 60 years and older.

Among people with irritable bowel syndrome, there are significant sex- and race-based disparities in provider-based diagnosis.

Chatbots do not offer reliable feedback for health topics that are prone to significant levels of misinformation.

From 2015 to 2023, there was a decrease in the number of U.S. patients prescribed long-term opioid therapy, according to a study published online April 8 in the ...