{
  "id": 8058643,
  "title": "The body's warmth sensor is secretly a pain switch—blocking it may ease arthritis",
  "url": "https://urgent.news/2026/09/17/the-bodys-warmth-sensor-is-secretly-a-pain-switch-blocking-it-may",
  "topic": "health",
  "section": "Health & Medicine",
  "published": "2026-09-17T16:20:07.000Z",
  "source": {
    "name": "Medical Xpress",
    "slug": "medical-xpress",
    "url": "https://medicalxpress.com/news/2026-09-body-warmth-sensor-secretly-pain.html"
  },
  "original_language": "en",
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  "summary": "Chronic pain, including arthritis pain, affects more than one-third of U.K. adults. Current painkillers such as methotrexate and nonsteroidal anti-inflammatory drugs (NSAIDs) work by damping down the immune system, which is overproducing inflammatory agents that cause pain, but relief is often short-lived and incomplete, and they can leave patients more vulnerable to infection.",
  "key_points": [],
  "editors_take": null,
  "illustration": null,
  "coverage": {
    "outlets": 1,
    "also_reported_by": []
  },
  "ai_generated": true,
  "disclaimer": "Summaries, key points and the editor’s take are written by software from other outlets’ reporting and may contain errors — always check the linked original."
}