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(Reuters) - Many U.S. cancer doctors say they are good at managing their patients' pain, but most failed to choose the right treatment options in a test and say that figuring out the level of pain patients have is still a major barrier to care, a survey said.

The findings, published in the Journal of Clinical Oncology, came from a ...

NEW YORK (Reuters Health) - In new survey of cancer doctors in the U.S., many oncologists said they were good at managing their patients' pain -- but most failed to choose the right treatment option in a test, and said that figuring out how much pain patients have is still a major barrier to providing appropriate care.

The study is a ...

LONDON (Reuters) - Patients with chronic and widespread pain who got a course of a talking treatment called cognitive behavioral therapy (CBT) on the phone reported feeling "better" or "very much better" after 6 months, the results of study showed Monday.

Researchers from Britain's universities of Aberdeen and Manchester who conducted the study also found that exercise improved pain and ...

NEW YORK (Reuters Health) - People over age 75 who visit the emergency department with complaints of pain are about 20 percent less likely to have their pain treated than middle-aged patients, according to a new study.

Even among patients with severe pain, those aged 35 to 54 were 12 percent more likely to receive a pain killer than patients over ...

The United States is facing an epidemic of lethal overdoses from prescription painkillers, which have tripled in the past decade and now account for more deaths than heroin and cocaine combined.

The quantity of painkillers on the market is so high that it would be enough for every American to swallow a standard dose of Vicodin every four hours for ...

(Reuters) - Pacira Pharmaceuticals Inc said U.S. health regulators approved its drug to relieve post-surgical pain, a move that may limit the use of opioids in post-operative setting.

Opioids -- which include morphine, fentanyl and oxycodone, and are widely used as painkillers -- are powerful narcotics that can be highly addictive and prone to widespread abuse.

Pacira's drug Exparel contains a ...

ORLANDO, Fla (Reuters) - A 49-year-old male nurse sexually assaulted two patients at the same Florida hospital emergency room where a teenager allegedly obtained an employee badge and treated patients recently, police said on Thursday.

The nurse, Shean Galvin, was arrested Wednesday at the Osceola Regional Medical Center and charged with two counts of sexual battery on female patients, according to ...

LONDON (Reuters) - Scientists have found a molecule in the body which controls sensitivity to pain from UVB irradiation, or sunburn, and say it may help them develop new drugs to treat pain in other common conditions such as arthritis.

The CXCL5 molecule is part of a family of proteins called chemokines which recruit inflammatory immune cells to injured tissue, triggering ...

WASHINGTON (Reuters) - Addressing chronic pain, a hard-to-treat yet highly common condition, costs the United States as much as $635 billion a year and requires a much more comprehensive strategy for curbing lost productivity and healthcare expenses, according to a new government report.

At least 116 million U.S. adults -- or about four in 10 -- suffer from chronic pain every year ...

(Reuters) - Endo Pharmaceuticals Holdings Inc said it recalled two lots of its pain drug Endocet as it may contain incorrect tablets that have a higher dose of widely used analgesic, acetaminophen.

The company said it recalled certain bottles containing Endocet 10 mg/325 mg tablets, a combination product of two medications: oxycodone and acetaminophen, as it contained some Endocet 10 ...