World Health Organization member states agreed to the treaty after three years of talks. NPR speaks with Precious Matsoso, who served as co-chair of the group tasked with creating the treaty.

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Just over a decade ago, the World Health Assembly unanimously resolved that palliative care is an ethical responsibility of health systems; however, access to palliative care remains abysmal in ...

Research supports the effectiveness of a kinesiology-based method to treat lower back pain, say study authors working in ...

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Neuropathic pain, defined as pain caused by a lesion or disease of the somatosensory nervous system, does not act as a signal to warn the body of damage as acute pain does, and thus it does not have a ...

Scientists develop lab-grown model of the human sensory pathway to investigate how pain signals are transmitted to the brain.

A recent study has uncovered a potential breakthrough in treating osteonecrosis of the femoral head (ONFH), a debilitating bone disease that causes severe pain and joint collapse.

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A research team at Stanford University has become the first to assemble a functioning brain circuit in a lab dish by ...

The Breakthrough Prizes have been awarded annually ... This leads to symptoms of numbness, weakness, pain, dizziness, slurred speech, coordination problems, and blurred or double vision.