I tried both the app and cognitive-behavioral therapy, the gold-standard psychotherapy for chronic pain. Neither improved my symptoms. Deep down, I knew the problem was in my body, not my mind.

A research team at the University of Vienna, led by medicinal chemist Markus Muttenthaler, has developed a new class of oral ...

A research team has developed a new class of oral peptide therapeutic leads for treating chronic abdominal pain. This groundbreaking innovation offers a safe, non-opioid-based solution for conditions ...

Dr. Ajay Bakhshi, MD, a gastrointestinologist based in Maryland, points out that an IBS diagnosis is typically given when a ...

Medicare is lauded as one of the most robust in the world - yet ask any woman with chronic pain how they would rate their ...

A SCHOOLGIRL, 11, died after four doctors “missed her appendicitis”, an inquest has heard. Lacey Brookman’s appendix is ...

If you are reading this, we assume you are one of "us" – the 1 in 5 people who have irritable bowel syndrome (IBS). Some of us have diarrhea, some of us have constipation – and some of us get to ...

are thought to be helpful for FAP and IBS through their effects on decreasing smooth muscle spasms in the GI tract that may produce symptoms such as pain. In a recent meta-analysis, antispasmodics ...

A proinflammatory diet has individual components that may be independent risk factors for irritable bowel syndrome. A proinflammatory diet increases risk for irritable bowel syndrome (IBS) relative to ...

Nearly everyone knows a person like the character Kieran Culkin plays in A Real Pain, the story of two cousins who trek to Poland to connect with their Jewish roots, and with the past of the ...

Following its successful debut at the Sundance Film Festival in January, “A Real Pain” is now playing, written and directed by Jesse Eisenberg (who also happens to star in it). He appears alon ...

The terrible pain started a week earlier, and she had already been to the emergency room twice. By Lisa Sanders, M.D. “You need to go back to the hospital,” the visiting nurse declared shortly ...