Center for Advancing Pain Relief Content / Center for Advancing Pain Relief Content for ºÙºÙÊÓƵ en Turning Tarantula Venom Into Pain Relief /news/turning-tarantula-venom-pain-relief <p>Researchers at ºÙºÙÊÓƵ are developing a new type of pain medication from an unusual source — tarantula venom.</p> <p>The project is part of the&nbsp;<a href="https://heal.nih.gov/">NIH Helping to End Addiction Long-Term (HEAL) Initiative</a>, aimed at ending opioid addiction and creating non-addictive therapies to treat pain.</p> July 14, 2021 - 12:07pm Andy Fell /news/turning-tarantula-venom-pain-relief The Pain Problem /news/pain-problem-0 <p>Pain is a pervasive problem that the medical community has not yet addressed in a comprehensive way. That’s the dilemma facing an interdisciplinary group at UC&nbsp;Davis.</p> December 06, 2017 - 1:54pm Allyson Donies Tsuji /news/pain-problem-0