All pain

Group photo of researchers after receiving grant award for gut microbiome research. From left to right: Ardith Doorenbos (UIC), Stefan Green (Rush), Mark Lockwood (UIC), Lisa Tussing-Humphreys (UIC), and Beatrix Peñalver Bernabé (UIC).

November 20, 2019

A new link between migraines, opioid overuse may be key to treating pain

Using opioids to treat migraines needs reevaluation

Naked mole-rats: plants, under low-oxygen conditions

May 30, 2019

African mole-rats immune to ‘wasabi pain’

UIC research published in Science

Lawrence A. Tabak

October 4, 2018

NIH deputy director addresses ways to combat opioid crisis

NIH research initiative aims to combat public health crisis of opioid misuse

acupuncture

October 11, 2017

Acupuncture could ease women’s vulvar pain

Health care professionals don’t know how to treat vulvodynia

x-ray of Pulmonary Hypertension

October 13, 2015

Lung cancer patients receive more radiation than recommended

Unnecessary treatments mean increased cost, needless hospital trips

February 27, 2015

Heightened social pain in depression tied to pain perception

Physical, emotional pain colored by neurochemical mechanism

holding hands

November 26, 2013

Research seeks to ease pain in dying cancer patients

Computer app allows hospice patients to report symptoms

Triniece Pearson

May 22, 2013

Seven UIC students named Schweitzer Fellows

Underserved communities to benefit from year-long service learning programs

IV taped to hand

February 12, 2013

Pinpointing pain

Diana Wilkie can’t alleviate all the suffering in people’s lives, but she’s working to reduce their physical pain.

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