'Morphine babies' feel more pain
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Premature babies who receive morphine may grow up to be more sensitive to pain, a study on rats suggests.
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Babies whose mothers use a type of anti-depressant during pregnancy may be born with withdrawal symptoms, research suggests.
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Fears about addiction and drug crime prevent millions of people from getting morphine, a drug that is cheap, effective and perfectly legal for medical uses in most countries.
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By Steven Reinberg, HealthDay Reporter    HealthDayNews -- Morphine, a potent painkiller typically derived from the opium poppy plant, appears to be made by the human body as well.    Small amounts of morphine have been found in animal tissue before, but researchers had assumed these traces came from environmental contamination, such as a diet...
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Sometimes the numbing effect of TV can be helpful. Especially if you're a kid being stuck with a needle at the hospital.
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More young U.S. adults are abusing  prescription medications, particularly painkillers, according  to the government&#39;s annual report on substance abuse released  on Thursday.
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Fetuses of mothers who show high rates of depression, anxiety and stress weigh less and are smaller than average at midterm, according to a recent study from the University of Miami School of Medicine.
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Opioid medications are increasingly being given in emergency rooms â but white patients are more likely to get them than minorities, a new study finds.
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NEW YORK  - Applying a topical anesthetic  half an hour beforehand reduces pain for children getting a  measles-mumps-rubella (MMR) shot, according to a report by  Canadian researchers.
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Scientists have discovered a poppy that does not produce addictive drugs - and are using it to make safer painkillers. Poppies are used to make the pharmaceuticals morphine and codeine, which act as painkillers
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Geneticists following up the case of a 10-year old Pakistani boy who could walk on coals without discomfort have discovered a gene that is central to the perception of pain.
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Doctors can safely inject pain-killing drugs into the spines of women who are in the early stages of labor without increasing the risk of Caesarean section, researchers said on Wednesday.
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TUESDAY, Nov. 14 (HealthDay News) -- French researchers say they've discovered a natural painkiller in human saliva that's several times more potent than morphine used in animal studies.
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STANFORD, California  - A potentially crippling disease in which the slightest touch of the skin can cause intense pain is often misdiagnosed in children, needlessly leaving some young patients in wheelchairs or on crutches, pediatric experts said.
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Ibuprofen was superior to acetaminophen and codeine in relieving the pain from a broken bone or serious sprain suffered by children brought to the emergency room, Canadian researchers said on Monday.
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Scientists are hunting new ways to help millions of pain sufferers &#151; from addiction-resistant narcotics to using brain scanners for biofeedback &#151; amid a worrisome rise in abuse of today's top prescription painkillers.
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Children gowned and waiting for surgery, many of them scared and crying, can be calmed better with hand-held video games than with sedatives, Newark researchers have found.