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Pain: Medicine Although anaesthesia and painkillers (analgesics) have provided great benefits, pain remains a difficult medical problem, particularly chronic pain. Research is being carried out to develop new treatments and also improve patients’ own management of their pain. LATEST ARTICLES Cognitive behavioural approaches to chronic pain Charles Pither on the benefits of psychological and physical therapies for chronic pain relief.   Complementary medicine for painEdzard Ernst on the complementary approaches to pain control. Phantom limb pain Jonathan Cole on new treatments for pain associated with an amputated limb.