Chronic pain has a personalized "brain fingerprint," allowing AI to decode spontaneous pain levels through fMRI scans.

Patient-reported outcome measures and clinical scales were ineffective in predicting responses to full-agonist opioids for chronic pain.

American workers are increasingly experiencing a deadly combination of chronic pain and opioid addiction. According to the CDC, more than 1 in 5 Americans experienced chronic pain in 2021 alone: ...

Pain interference, but not severity, significantly predicted long-term mortality risk among middle-aged and older adults in the US.

This article is the latest in the Health Affairs Forefront featured topic Accountable Care for Population Health, featuring analysis and discussion of how to understand, design, support, and measure ...

After developing chronic pain, I started looking into what scientists do — and still don’t — understand about the disease. Here is what I learned. By Jennifer Kahn Most of us don’t think about pain ...