In a windowless room inside a London hospital, a newborn winces as a heel is pricked for a routine blood test. The response is immediate. The child flinches, grimaces. The face contorts, just like an ...

A newly-published Cochrane review reveals significant gaps in the clinical rating scales used to assess pain in newborn babies, highlighting the urgent need for improved tools and global collaboration ...

Brain networks responsible for sensing, understanding, and responding emotionally to pain develop at different rates in infants, with the conscious understanding of pain not fully developed until ...