Pregnancy is a period of joy. However, as exciting as it is, childbirth also comes with pain. Fortunately, modern medicine has a solution. Labour pain today does not have to be painful. Among the ...

The new implant is essentially a type of advanced spinal cord stimulator, which are devices that sit in between the spinal cord and the vertebrate and emit electrical pulses that disrupt pain signals.

An estimated 18,000 people in the United States annually suffer from new injuries to their spinal cords. Unfortunately for those afflicted, no FDA-approved therapy is currently available. Scientists ...

(Reuters Health) - Access to pain relief during childbirth in the U.S. may vary depending on where women live, a study suggests. Researchers who analyzed more than 2.6 million deliveries in 2015 found ...

The procedure jams signals to the brain so that the patient does not perceive intense pain. Read more at straitstimes.com.

Getting your Trinity Audio player ready... Ray Avila lay on the operating table with a messy, fist-size hole in his back, as Dr. Giancarlo Barolat burned flesh, sliced fat and peeled cartilage to make ...

When one trains to become a physician, there is a first time for everything - the first scary day in anatomy lab, the first physical exam, the first IV. My most memorable first was the time I poked a ...

A recent prospective randomized investigation found the breakthrough in geriatric anesthesia revealing that tailoring spinal ...