Their results should help doctors treat patient pain better and could assist researchers in developing
experimental pain drugs.
Not exact matches
This
experimental drug is worth a deeper dive right now because the acute
pain market is massive (more than $ 11 billion in just the U.S.), and there's a desperate need for viable alternatives to highly addictive
drugs like morphine.
By giving an
experimental drug along with a narcotic, a team of researchers has eliminated the opiate's potentially lethal side effect while preserving its ability to blunt
pain.
Almost every animal behavior studied in the lab, from the effectiveness of
experimental drugs to the ability of monkeys to do math, is affected by stress, notes Paul Flecknell, a veterinary anesthesiologist at Newcastle University in the United Kingdom who researches ways to alleviate
pain in animals.