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Neck stiffness hits hard after long hours at desks, hunching over phones, or waking from a bad pillow night. It limits turns, sparks headaches, and drains energy. Five straightforward exercises can ...

When physician Zameer Pirani teaches medical students how to treat patients with chronic pain, he ends his lectures by raising three red flags. He says the aspiring family doctors should watch out for ...

A systematic review of studies evaluating cannabis as a pain treatment concluded that some cannabis products do likely work to reduce chronic pain a little bit. The overall reduction in pain was small ...

A widely prescribed opioid painkiller showed limited effectiveness and increased risk of negative effects in a new analysis published in BMJ Evidence-Based Medicine. The study examined tramadol, a ...

Lindsay Curtis is a health & medical writer in South Florida. She worked as a communications professional for health nonprofits and the University of Toronto’s Faculty of Medicine and Faculty of ...

Allison DeAngelis is the East Coast biotech and venture capital reporter at STAT, reporting where scientific ideas and money meet. She is also co-host of the weekly biotech podcast, The Readout Loud.

A new weight-loss drug that Eli Lilly is testing is helping patients in a late-stage trial lose an average of 28.7% of their body weight and offered "substantial" relief from osteoarthritis pain. In ...

In a phase 3 trial, Eli Lilly’s experimental drug retatrutide delivered an average 28.7% weight loss and reduced pain among adults with obesity or overweight and knee osteoarthritis. The trial ...

Cannabidiol (CBD) oil, derived from the cannabis plant, has recently become a popular topic in medical and scientific research circles as a non-intoxicating compound with pain-management potential.

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Nov. 6, 2025 -- Fibromyalgia affects about 4 million U.S. adults. Though its cause remains unclear, it can be effectively diagnosed, treated, and managed. But what exactly is fibromyalgia, and why is ...