Difficult patient encounters were associated with suboptimal chronic pain management outcomes but had no effect on patient follow-up.

The US FDA announced it is shifting away from animal testing in the development of monoclonal antibody therapies and other drugs.

Exposure-response curves reveal impacts of daytime-only, nighttime-only, and compound heatwaves on cause-specific heart disease mortality.

Having both aqueous-deficient and evaporative dry eye, corneal pain, or a history of dry eye treatment can worsen quality of life.

Among women with chronic pain, daily discrimination, especially gender-based discrimination, is tied to greater pain interference.

All-cause mortality increased in 2020 to 2021 nationwide, with a slower increase in Medicaid expansion states.

Yoga is noninferior to strengthening exercises for knee osteoarthritis pain in people aged 40 years and older.

Physician women had higher suicide rates compared to the general population from 2017 to 2021, though statistical significance remains unclear.

The risk for noncephalic pain was increased in pediatric patients with severe and frequent migraine, with the greatest risk observed in those with continuous headache.

For adults with sickle cell disease, C-reactive protein levels increase significantly during the follicular phase of the menstrual cycle.

Prescribing medical cannabis to patients with chronic health conditions may improve health-related quality of life.

There were 93,022 firearm injury emergency department visits from January 2018 through August 2023 in 9 states and the District of Columbia.