There was no magical numbing cream, of course (at least, not that I knew of at the time). But the doctor got it: He took a ...

Scientists have long searched for drugs that can prevent VF, but most have failed clinical trials because of serious side ...

A new law on substance use disorder includes provisions that legally protect those who test drugs for harm reduction purposes ...

Patients seeking an opioid-free way to handle pain experienced in the short-term will soon have a new option.

The Food and Drug Administration approved a new type of nonopioid painkiller, Journaxv, or suzetrigine, drugmaker Vertex ...

After 11 years of lidocaine patches, physical therapy, and cortisone injections, Lavine made an appointment with Jeremy ...

The Alabama Department of Public Health is investigating some reports of adverse reactions to injections of the antibiotic ceftriaxone, or Rocephin, but a local health provider said she has seen no ...

Another option is injecting lidocaine, which is a local anesthetic, around the cervix. This may reduce some of the procedure’s discomfort, but doctors don’t routinely offer this option.

Intercostal muscle strains are the most common type of musculoskeletal chest pain. The intercostal muscles are thin muscles that attach between the ribs. During breathing, the external intercostals ...

The temporary facial droop was hypothesized to have occurred due to injection of lidocaine very proximally in this patient, which may have caused reflux and migration of lidocaine to branches ...

lidocaine 5% patch. Pain Medicine News, the premier trade publication in the pain management space, published decreased opioid utilization demonstrated with ZTlido in the magazine’s December ...

45.5%). Of all study patients reporting a decrease in opioid use, significantly more in the ZTlido ® group experienced a 20% or greater reduction in opioid use, compared with those treated with 5% ...