A sweeping review of 67 trials has cast doubt on the use of ketamine and similar NMDA receptor antagonists for chronic pain ...

A major Cochrane review found no convincing evidence that ketamine or similar NMDA-blocking drugs improve chronic non-cancer ...

The off-label use of ketamine to treat chronic pain is not supported by scientific evidence, a new Cochrane review has found.

Researchers cautioned that the existing evidence base is too poor to draw any solid conclusions on whether ketamine can help ...

The U.S. Food and Drug Administration has approved the ketamine product, KETARx, for use in surgical pain management.

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Ketamine is regularly used for the treatment of chronic pain, but a new report shows there is no clear evidence of its benefit.The off-label use of ...

NMDA receptor antagonists are a group of medicines that affect the excitability of nerves involved in pain and other brain functions. They include ketamine, memantine, dextromethorphan, amantadine, ...

Researchers show in rats that ultrasound-guided nanoparticles can deliver ketamine to specific regions of the brain and ...

How do you send drugs to specific parts of the body so they do their job and avoid causing side effects elsewhere? According ...

Li’s study, “TIAM1-mediated synaptic plasticity underlies comorbid depression-like and ketamine antidepressant-like actions in chronic pain," was recently published in The Journal of Clinical ...