As the opioid crisis continues in America, more and more doctors are steering away from prescribing opioid medications as a treatment for pain. Since 1999, more than 932,000 people have died from a ...

Back pain plagues many Americans, and new research shows that doctors are doling out muscle relaxant prescriptions to treat the pain -- often along with an opioid painkiller. Experts worry that muscle ...

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Please provide your email address to receive an email when new articles are posted on . In 44 studies, muscle relaxants showed benefit for only a small subset of pain syndromes. The findings suggest ...

PHILADELPHIA - Office visits for ongoing prescribing of skeletal muscle relaxant drugs tripled from 2005 to 2016, according to a new study from researchers in the Perelman School of Medicine at the ...

Muscle relaxant drugs are largely ineffective for low back pain, despite being widely prescribed for this condition, suggests an analysis of the latest evidence published by The BMJ today. The ...

Muscle relaxant drugs are largely ineffective for low back pain, despite being widely prescribed for this condition, suggests an analysis of the latest evidence published by The BMJ today. The ...

Although tens of millions of Americans turn to muscle relaxants for lower back pain relief, a new Australian review finds little evidence that such drugs actually work. That's the conclusion of a deep ...

Please provide your email address to receive an email when new articles are posted on . For patients with chronic kidney disease, higher doses of the muscle relaxant baclofen appeared to increase risk ...

LONDON--(BUSINESS WIRE)--Technavio’s latest report on the global muscle relaxant drugs market provides an analysis of the most important trends expected to impact the market outlook from 2017-2021.

Generic drug maker Meitheal Pharmaceuticals recalled one lot of cisatracurium besylate, a muscle relaxant, after what the Institute for Safe Medication Practices ...

Patients with lower back pain prescribed skeletal muscle relaxants in addition to NSAIDs report the same outcomes as placebo plus NSAIDs, new research shows. "Combining a skeletal muscle relaxant with ...