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Having your period can be a painful experience. Period pain, also known as dysmenorrhea, is a very common condition with around nine in ten young women aged 13 to 25 in Australia having regular period pain. For many women, ...
Mar 15, 2026
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A new paper in Rheumatology Advances in Practice indicates that TikTok videos about gout are commonly misleading, inconsistent, or inaccurate. The paper is titled "Gout, TikTok and misleading information: A content analysis."
Dec 10, 2025
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Leon Bellan, associate professor of mechanical and biomedical engineering at Vanderbilt, and his team have developed a novel cooling-triggered device that could allow patients to safely and conveniently receive drugs for ...
Dec 5, 2025
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Every year, people around the world take an astonishing 3.8 trillion doses of medicine. Most of these medicines are swallowed rather than injected or inhaled, because the oral route is the easiest, safest and most familiar ...
Nov 13, 2025
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Ibuprofen is a household name—the go-to remedy for everything from headaches to period pain. But recent research suggests this everyday drug might be doing more than easing discomfort. It could also have anti-cancer properties.
Oct 19, 2025
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Scientists at the NYU Pain Research Center have identified which receptor in prostaglandins—the hormone-like substance targeted by common painkillers—causes pain but not inflammation. The findings, published in the journal ...
Sep 25, 2025
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Treating lower back pain is enormously expensive. In the UK it's estimated to cost the NHS around £3.2 billion a year. So, ensuring patients get the right treatment is critical.
Jun 19, 2025
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As winter settles over Australia, it's not just the drop in temperature we notice—there's also a sharp rise in respiratory illnesses. Most of us are familiar with the usual winter players such as COVID, influenza and RSV ...
Jun 10, 2025
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Cysts are small pockets of fluid that form inside the body. Ovarian cysts are common, affecting around one in 10 women. But sometimes they can cause pain—especially when they burst.
May 8, 2025
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More than 35 million adults in the U.S. have chronic kidney disease, and just a fraction of them even know it. And the number of cases is growing.
Apr 24, 2025
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