Losing an arm cuts more than muscle and bone. It also severs the easy, wordless link between what you want to do and what ...

Scientists are learning how the brain knows what’s happening throughout the body, and how that process might go awry in some ...

Select an option below to continue reading this premium story. Already a Honolulu Star-Advertiser subscriber? Log in now to continue reading. To understand how anesthesia works, consider your nervous ...

Acetaminophen may be doing more than just dulling pain in your brain it could be stopping it before it even starts. Scientists at Hebrew University have discovered that a metabolite of the drug, AM404 ...

New treatments are offering hope. One is called pain reprocessing therapy. In this method, patients work with therapists to understand their pain and change how they react to it. The brain learns to ...

The drug, Journavx by Vertex Pharmaceuticals, blocks pain signals to the brain, making it nonaddictive. By Gina Kolata The Food and Drug Administration approved a new medication Thursday to treat pain ...

Persistent neck and shoulder pain might stem from your gallbladder, not just muscles. Dr. Eric Berg reveals how poor diet ...