'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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Black and Hispanic patients in pain are less likely than whites to get powerful painkillers from U.S. hospital emergency departments, but the reasons may go beyond sheer racial bias, researchers said on Tuesday.
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In a recent trial, a pain medication wasn't as effective as had been hoped.
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WASHINGTON -- As a primary human drive, not even the pursuit of prolonged pleasure can compete with the avoidance of pain. That is why the sudden emergence of the painkiller issue strikes home to so many who
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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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It's a basic lesson children learn even before their ABCs &#151; say you're sorry when you hurt someone. But it's now being taught in the grown-up world of medicine as a surprisingly powerful way to soothe patients.
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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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Two people are charged after an incident in which a baby was believed to be suffering from the effects of heroin.
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For people with chronic pain, relief comes with a tradeoff.
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Finding out how prescription drugs affect children isn't easy, even for pediatricians, a new study says.
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Women who choose to have a pain-killing epidural during childbirth may have more difficulty breastfeeding than those who had a drug-free delivery, according to new research.
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An effort to ease tensions over the use of morphine-based painkillers has backfired -- leaving many doctors and patients more fearful than before that they could be arrested for practicing what they consider good medicine.
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Mothers who smoke during or after pregnancy increase their babies' risk of developing colic, those vexing, inconsolable crying spells that affect up to 20 percent of U.S. babies in their first few months of life, researchers say.
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The government approved a drug Tuesday that offers a new way of fighting severe pain - an option for patients who no longer benefit from morphine and other traditional pain medications.
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Findings from a new study  suggest that babies whose growth in the womb is restricted,  perhaps because of pregnancy complications, are particularly  susceptible to the development of irritable bowel syndrome  (IBS) later in life.
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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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Emergency room doctors are prescribing strong narcotics more often to patients who complain of pain, but minorities are less likely to get them than whites, a new study finds. Even for the severe pain of kidney stones, minorities were prescribed narcotics such as oxycodone and morphine less frequently than whites.