Patients in pain can be desperate to find ways to make that pain stop. Many depend on very strong opioid painkillers that can leave them addicted. Now University of Arizona researchers think they ...

The excitement offered by optogenetics don’t stop at pain relief, of course. Just a few months ago, scientists also figured out how to control hunger using opsins and light therapy.

Helping ease the pain of surgery may be as simple as opening a blind, finds a new University of Pittsburgh study. When scientists checked the records of 89 spinal surgery patients, those who ...

The researchers conjugated a BDNF protein with a commercial infrared photosensitizer dye already used for protein studies, and injected the material into the affected skin area of mice experiencing ...

It’s tailored to the source of your pain. Red light therapy devices come in various configurations, including rectangular panels, wraps, wands, ... stop immediately, he said.

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