An individual's experience of pain from medical treatment can be heightened by witnessing other people's responses to the same treatment, with this negative experience subsequently spreading to others, scientists have discovered.
Apr 30, 2024
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A perplexing problem for people with recurring urinary tract infections (UTIs) is persistent pain, even after antibiotics have successfully cleared the bacteria.
Mar 1, 2024
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Of course grief can ravage your mind, but science shows it can also weaken your body, leaving you open to illness.
Feb 26, 2024
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A new study has found that the brain system enabling us to inhibit our own pain changes with age, and that gender-based differences in those changes may lead females to be more sensitive to moderate pain than males as older ...
Jan 31, 2024
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It's that time of year when your kids come home with sniffles and sore throats, but when should you worry if they have a fever?
Dec 18, 2023
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Marijuana shows promise in treating illnesses ranging from depression and addiction to arthritis and epilepsy.
Nov 28, 2023
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It may be surprising to hear, but medically speaking, not all stress is bad. Healthy stress levels help build resilience, says Safia Debar, MBBS, a stress management expert at Mayo Clinic Healthcare in London. In this expert ...
Oct 26, 2023
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Research has shown that music might be a drug-free way to lower humans' pain perception. This decreased sensitivity to pain—also known as hypoalgesia—can occur when pain stimuli are disrupted between their point of input ...
Oct 25, 2023
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Genetic susceptibility may be responsible for around 1 in 3 cases of complex regional pain syndrome (CRPS), a poorly understood condition causing persistent severe and disabling pain, finds research published online in the ...
Oct 10, 2023
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Patients living with fibromyalgia (FM)—a disease that predominantly affects women and is characterized by chronic pain, fatigue and brain fog—often find limited treatment options and a scarcity of explanations for their ...
Sep 20, 2023
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