POSTS TAGGED AS pain

Fierce’s 15 Innovative Devices from 2013

Clearpath Ocular Glucose Monitor
This list included biomarkers for autism and thyroid cancer, devices to control hunger and deliver [MORE]

Nerve Mapping Technology

Example of Mechanomyography
Approximately 80% of adults will suffer back pain at some time in their lives, sciatica being [MORE]

“Pacemaker” for Chronic Back Pain

Precision Spectra Spinal Cord Stimulator
Earlier this year, the FDA approved a new spinal cord stimulator from Boston Scientific [MORE]

Electronic Pain-Relief Patch

Thimble Bioelectronics
Transcutaneous electrical nerve stimulation already is employed in a few wearable devices, but a “Band Aid” type patch [MORE]

“Brain Reading”

Brain Research
This piece describes research at UCLA’s Laboratory of Integrative Neuroimaging aimed at understanding and treating smoking addiction.  Investigators [MORE]

A Pacemaker for Pain

SPR Products
Recently, surgeons at Carolinas Medical Center implanted a nerve stimulating device in a 76 year old post-stoke patient [MORE]

Molecular Pathways of Temperature and Pain Sensation

Finding that skin cells are able to produce nitric oxide via a newly discovered pathway, researchers at the Scripps [MORE]

Chronic Pain: 116m People and Rising

Relieving Pain in America: A Blueprint for Transforming Prevention, Care, Education & Research is the title of an Institute [MORE]

“Pain Contracts”

Myra Christopher
Top tier pain medications, like Vicodin and Percocet, can be dangerous drugs.  They are opioids, and with over [MORE]

Smart Chips for Chronic Pain

Spinal Implant for Pain
Researchers at a national laboratory in Sydney, Australia have developed a tiny (about the size of [MORE]