Neuropathic pain drugs linked to higher hip fracture risk in seniors
A new study by Monash University medicine safety experts found the use of gabapentinoids—medicines widely used to treat ...
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Neuropathic pain drugs found to increase risk of hip fracture in older adults
A new study by medicine safety experts found the use of gabapentinoids -- medicines widely used to treat neuropathic pain -- increased the risk of hip fractures, especially in older patients who were ...
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Can Neuropathy Be Reversed? See the Best Treatments for Nerve Pain
But when your peripheral nerves-those found outside of the brain and spinal cord-are damaged, it can cause pain and numbness ...
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Neuropathic pain drugs may raise hip fracture risk in seniors
A new study from Monash University in Australia has found that gabapentinoids—commonly used drugs for treating neuropathic ...
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A new discovery about pain signalling may contribute to better treatment of chronic pain
When pain signals are passed along the nervous system, proteins called calcium channels play a key role. Researchers at ...
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Study links common pain medication to increased hip fracture risk in older adults
A large-scale Australian study has found that older adults taking gabapentinoids — a common pain medication for nerve pain and epilepsy — face an increased risk of hip fracture, with especially high ...
Light-based therapy reduces pain associated with peripheral diabetic neuropathy, study concludes
A study conducted at the Federal University of São Paulo (UNIFESP) in Brazil has concluded that the use of monochromatic ...
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Rapport's attempt to test epilepsy drug in nerve damage placed on hold by FDA
The FDA has placed a trial of Rapport Therapeutics’ epilepsy drug for a type of nerve pain on hold while the biotech tweaks ...
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A new discovery about pain signaling may contribute to better treatment of chronic pain
When pain signals are passed along the nervous system, proteins called calcium channels play a key role. Researchers have now pinpointed the exact location of a specific calcium channel fine-tuning ...