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By reducing pain, over-the-counter cannabis products may help patients think more clearly.

Cancer patients and providers share tips on discussing pain to inform symptoms and treatments, including for Black women with breast cancer.

Distinguishing side effects of treatment from a potential metastatic recurrence can be tricky; we asked cancer experts for best advice.

Palliative care specialists help patients find relief from pain, stress and treatment side effects.

Cancer patients who used cannabis had less pain, slept better and seemed to think more clearly.

NIH data are the first nationwide estimates on the incidence of new chronic pain and new high impact chronic pain.

Cancer patients were prescribed less opioids and had fewer hospital visits for pain in states that allow medical cannabis.

Born of efforts to fight the nation’s overdose crisis, the guidance led to legal restrictions on doctors’ ability to prescribe painkillers...

Cannabidiol oil and a placebo had similar effects for cancer patients receiving palliative care.

Researchers hope to recommend better intervention strategies to medical schools to address racial bias and prejudice in pain care.

Screening for stroke in children with sickle cell anemia could be lifesaving.

Many women with fibroids complain that often doctors don’t listen to what patients say. Some are speaking up.

A blood test and a smartwatch activity tracker helped predict how quickly hip replacement surgery patients recuperated.

Doctors’ implicit biases can be particularly destructive to their patients’ health outcomes.

Kellie Smith, 52, lives in Austin with her husband and child. She has multiple myeloma.

Many breast cancer patients rely on cannabis not just to relieve side effects but to treat cancer yet may be unaware of possible harms.