"Broken-hearted" isn't just a metaphor -- social pain and physical pain have a lot in common, according to Naomi Eisenberger of the University of Califiornia-Los Angeles, the author of a new paper published in Current Directions ...
Feb 22, 2012
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Lawmakers in the West African nation of The Gambia have rejected a highly controversial push to try overturn a ban on female genital mutilation.
Jul 15, 2024
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Dear Mayo Clinic: My spouse suffers from chronic pain after a back injury five years ago. The pain affects his ability to work and enjoy day-to-day activities with our family. Seeing him in pain and not knowing how to help ...
Oct 25, 2023
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Chronic pain impacts around 20 percent of the population. Along with the medical and physical effects it can have far-reaching consequences for employment, lifestyle and mental health.
Feb 27, 2023
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Imagine living with pain every day for months, or even years—pain that is so intrusive, it disrupts every day of your life.
Dec 23, 2022
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Watch enough TikTok videos and you're sure to see one extolling a special kind of do-it-yourself dentistry. Not about brushing and flossing, except maybe flossing with strands of your hair. These are videos on drilling into ...
Oct 24, 2022
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Maiwenn Colleaux was 14 when she first started getting migraines, and they immediately turned her life upside down.
Sep 8, 2022
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It may sound like something out of a fantasy movie, but scientists hope to be able to bottle the smell of happiness so it can be used to help people with phobias or depression.
Mar 16, 2021
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When Kent Hutchison's 70-year-old mother traveled to Colorado in 2014 to explore using marijuana to ease her chronic pain, she got different—often contradictory—advice from every dispensary she visited.
Jul 2, 2019
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Can acupressure achieve a sustained reduction in menstrual pain? Is an app-based self-care program particularly attractive to young women? These questions are addressed in a new study by researchers from Charité - Universitätsmedizin ...
Apr 4, 2018
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