VertexPharma wants to transform the treatment of pain. An upcoming sciatica clinical trial readout will be pivotal.

If you experience severe or sudden calf pain or suddenly have trouble moving or walking, it’s time to contact a healthcare ...

More than 200,000 Medicare patients with back pain underwent $2 billion worth of unnecessary surgeries, including spinal fusion and/or laminectomy or vertebroplasty, over a recent 3-year period, ...

A $2.3 million settlement has been reached for a construction worker seriously injured when he fell while working on stilts.

Biotech companies have brought many important treatments to market, from ones that address rare diseases to ones that handle ...

Complex regional pain syndrome (CRPS) has been reported and studied in adults for many years. It is a less acknowledged disorder in children, probably due to underdiagnosis. The presentation and ...

New Hampshire and Arkansas were found to have the highest rates of unnecessary spinal fusions and/or laminectomies and vertebroplasties, respectively, according ...

If you experience stomach pain first thing in the day, you're probably wondering why your stomach hurts when you wake up. Like most abdominal pain, morning stomach pain typically resolves without ...

Spinal fusion and laminectomy procedures were deemed overused for patients with low back pain, excluding those with radicular symptoms, trauma, herniated disc, discitis, spondylosis, myelopathy, ...

3. "Overuse" was defined for spinal fusions and/or laminectomies if patients did not have radicular symptoms, trauma, herniated disc, discitis, spondylosis, myelopathy, radiculopathy, radicular pain ...

As was noted in this space some time ago, the Pennsylvania Supreme Court was considering an employer’s petition for allowance ...