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Editor’s note: The 17th IASP World Congress on Pain took place September 12-16, 2018, in Boston, US. At the Congress, 12 early-career pain researchers took part in the PRF Correspondents Program, a science communications…

Migraine is the second most disabling condition worldwide, trailing only low back pain, yet it remains neglected as a field of research.

Physicians have at their disposal a battery of tests to measure heartrate, blood pressure, and temperature—objective, quantifiable indicators of disease. But no such biomarkers exist yet for chronic pain.…

Editor’s note: The following is a report on research presented during a session on pain nanomedicine at the American Pain Society (APS) Annual Scientific Meeting. This year, the meeting…

Editor’s note: The following is a meeting report from the University of Maryland’s Center to Advance Chronic Pain Research (CACPR) 3rd Annual Symposium. The theme of this event, which…

The following is the first of a two-part report on research presented at the 2017 Society for Neuroscience annual meeting, which took place November 11-15 in Washington, DC. See…

The 2017 annual meeting of the Society for Neuroscience was held November 11-15 in Washington, DC. For some, the meeting’s proximity to Capitol Hill provided an opportunity to speak…

Editor's note: This is Part 2 of PRF’s coverage of selected talks from a pre-conference workshop on pain and aging, held July 23 in San Francisco, US, at the…

This meeting report is co-authored by Dayna Loyd Averitt and Shivani Ruparel (Media Committee Co-Chairs).

On April 26, 2017, PRF hosted its 25th webinar, which explored the science behind placebo and nocebo effects. Luana Colloca, University of Maryland, Baltimore, US, presented her talk, "From…

Editor’s Note: The 2016 annual meeting of the Society for Neuroscience took place November 12-16, 2016, in San Diego, US. Part 3, below, of our coverage of the meeting is…

Editor’s Note: The 2016 annual meeting of the Society for Neuroscience took place November 12-16, 2016, in San Diego, US. Part 1, below, of our coverage of the meeting…

Editor’s note: The International Association for the Study of Pain’s 16th World Congress on Pain took place from September 26-30, 2016, in Yokohama, Japan. Nearly 4,500 pain researchers and clinicians…

Allodynia is a hallmark of neuropathic pain in which normally non-painful stimuli, such as a light touch, evoke pain. Researchers have recently taken strides toward understanding the neuronal circuitry…

The following is Part 2 of a three-part series of selected presentations from the 35th Annual Scientific Meeting of the American Pain Society (APS) held May 11-14, 2016, in…

Patients respond differently—and unpredictably—to opioid drugs in terms of efficacy and side effects; these individual variations arise from genetic differences. Although the drugs act at the mu-opioid receptor (MOR),…

The following is Part 2 of a three-part series of selected presentations from the 2015 annual meeting of the Society for Neuroscience, held October 17-21, 2015, in Chicago, Illinois,…

This report was co-authored by Shivani Ruparel, University of Texas Health Science Center, San Antonio.

The worldwide pain research community headed to Buenos Aires, Argentina, for the International Association for the Study of Pain’s 15th World Congress on Pain, held October 6-11, 2014. This…

The spread of medical marijuana to treat chronic pain is welcome to some people, and alarming to others. On the plus side, marijuana, or cannabis, has a long history…

A trio of studies presented at the 44th annual meeting of the Society for Neuroscience, held November 15-19 in Washington, DC, US, adds to a growing body of literature…

In a keynote lecture, Howard Fields, University of California, San Francisco, US, took up the topic of what happens to the nociceptive signal once it reaches the brain. “Pain…