Medicinal plant extract used by Native Americans can treat both pain and diarrhea
Native American medicinal knowledge may help scientists develop drug combos in the modern age.
Tag: painkiller
Researchers reveal how marijuana develops pain-relief molecules 30 times stronger than Aspirin
Marijuana has anti-inflammatory molecules which could be used in a new class of painkillers.
Scottish woman who feels no pain and heals without scars might help create novel painkillers
Life without pain comes with its own problems. But a drug that temporarily shuts down pain -- well that would ...
Fentanyl is now the deadliest drug in America
Just a few grains of the substance can kill.
FDA says seriously, stop stealing your pets’ opioids
Apparently, this is a problem.
Marijuana legalization helps decrease opioid consumption, research shows
In states where both recreational and medical marijuana was legalized, opioid prescriptions dropped about 14%.
A sea-snail’s venom could rival opioids in pain relief capability
Its venom is so powerful it can kill pain! Whoa.
Scientists make new opioid painkiller, without the nasty side effects
They started from scratch, using computational techniques to explore more than four trillion different chemical interactions.
Centipede venom could hold the secret of the perfect painkiller
Chinese researchers discovered a chemical compound that works just as well as morphine -- without any of the negative side ...
Prescription painkillers cause 67.8% of opioid overdoses. Heroin a distant second at 16.1%
An American national study that looked at hospital emergency department visits for opioid overdoses found that 67.8% of the cases involved ...
An analgesic molecule discovered in its natural state in Africa
Nauclea latifolia (also know as the pin cushion tree) is a small shrub, relatively common, used in traditional medicine throughout ...
How a girl that doesn’t feel pain at all might help create the painkillers of tomorrow
Some people are born with the innate ability, or better said disability, of not feeling pain - whatsoever. It's not ...
Painkiller addictions are the worst drug epidemic in US history
Fatal overdoses due to painkillers have reached epidemic levels, greatly exceeding those from heroin and cocaine combined, becoming the worst ...
Powerful new painkiller with no side effects could be just one year away
Unfortunately, pretty much every human being with access to medical care has taken some sort of painkillers at some point ...
