Nurse Rod Salaysay works with all kinds of instruments in the hospital: a thermometer, a stethoscope and sometimes his guitar and ukulele. In the recovery unit of UC San Diego Health, Salaysay helps ...

Close to two decades ago, we were introduced to Flo Rida and T-Pain’s hit song “Low.” It was when we learned that “Shawty had them AppleBottom jeans and boots with the fur and the whole club was ...

Acute or short-lived pain, despite its bad reputation, is usually a lifesaver. It acts as a transient negative sensory experience that helps us avoid danger. Touch a hot stove, stub a toe, or bonk ...

Tramadol, a potent synthetic opioid, has been widely used to treat moderate to severe pain, but a new study suggests that the medication’s potential risks outweigh its “limited” benefits for chronic ...

The strong opioid painkiller tramadol is not significantly effective at easing the chronic pain for which it's widely prescribed, finds a pooled data analysis of the available research, published in ...

Pain is hard to measure. One person’s “ouch” is another’s agony. Now, scientists say they’ve found a better way of assessing pain: putting a price on it. By translating pain into dollars, they’ve ...

Older adults with chronic low back pain (CLBP) had less pain and improved physical function using acupuncture compared to standard treatments, a National Institutes of Health (NIH)-funded clinical ...

Claudia Cardinale, the Italian movie star known for the films "Once Upon a Time in the West" and "The Pink Panther," has died. She was 87. Cardinale died on Tuesday, Sept. 23, in Nemours, France. Her ...

Claudia Cardinale, the sexy Italian movie star who appeared in classic Italian films including Fellini’s “8½” and Visconti’s “Rocco and His Brothers” and “The Leopard,” Sergio Leone’s spaghetti ...

Claudia Cardinale, the Italian movie star who appeared in such films as “The Pink Panther” and “Once Upon a Time in the West,” died Tuesday near Paris, according to her agent. The actress was 87.