According to the National Institutes of Health, opioid misuse and addiction in the United States is a national crisis, with an economic burden upwards of $78 billion. Opioids are useful for pain ...

As any parent knows, it hurts to hear a child cry in pain. Despite progress in understanding pain in children and infants, the youngest patients still aren’t getting the relief they need from doctors, ...

Canada has published the first-ever national standard to guide pediatric pain management in children's, community or regional, and rehabilitation hospitals that treat children up to age 19.

Multimodal approach should be used for treating acute pain; opioids should not be prescribed as monotherapy. (HealthDay News) — In a clinical practice guideline issued by the American Academy of ...

Each year, too many kids in the East Bay suffer needlessly from pain related to long-term serious illness, including migraines, joint and abdominal pain, sickle cell anemia and more. A new UCSF Health ...

A new dental practice guideline recommends acetaminophen or nonsteroidal anti-inflammatory drugs (NSAIDs) as first-line treatments for managing short-term pain in children. "This clinical prescribing ...

Cerebral palsy (CP) is a diagnostic label representing a wide range of nonprogressive motor impairments that are identified at birth or in early childhood. A more specific definition identifies CP as ...

According to the National Institutes of Health, opioid misuse and addiction in the United States is a national crisis, with an economic burden upwards of $78 billion. Opioids are useful for pain ...

Although most research and attention focus on adults, children and adolescents suffer from chronic pain and mental health disorders in numbers as high as adults. A study published in JAMA Pediatrics ...

Dentists reported that pediatric pain management practices need to improve, because controlling pain, as well as anxiety or fear, in kids is a problem. The study was published on October 25 in the ...

Doha, 27 November 2012: Hamad Medical Corporation (HMC) is developing a pain management team that will specialize in addressing acute and chronic pain in children and adolescents, especially those ...

There are many things that parents and caregivers can do to reduce the stress and pain associated with vaccination. Last week, the FDA approved Pfizer’s Covid-19 vaccine for children aged between 5-11 ...