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We all experience multiple types of pain throughout our lives. Bee stings, sunburns, and skinned knees are all examples of acute, short-term pain, but pain can also be chronic. Chronic pain comes from underlying inflammation that for some reason has become long-term.

Pain is actually a protective mechanism — pulling away from a hot stove prevents us from getting burnt when cooking, and chronic pain can be our body’s way of telling us that something is out of balance. Pain becomes a problem, however, when the underlying causes aren’t easily corrected.

Compounding pharmacists can work with you and your physician to find a medication therapy for your pain, no matter what type of pain it is.

The body doesn't secrete hydrocortisone the same way a pill, injection, IV, or other 'external' delivery system does. That, thought University of Bristol researchers, doesn't make sense.

So they did what health scientists do: They took 10 years and developed a new type of hydrocortisone-replacement therapy called "Pulsatility."

It's "designed to deliver standard hydrocortisone replacement to patients via a pump that replicates more closely cortisol’s natural rhythmic secretion pattern."

It's not just in the lab — they've started trials on the subcutaneous pump and so far it's "revealed promising results."

If you're familiar with British understatement, that probably means patients were cured of everything that ails them, grew taller and better looking, and gained 12 IQ points. But we'll settle for "This could be in the real world in a few years."

The good folks at Pharmacy Times would like you to remember to sing a little for the unsung heroes of pharmacy — we're talking, of course, about pharmacy technicians. 

PT shares some of the best quotes from pharmacists an technicians about the role they play. Check it out!