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New Test Distinguishes Physical From Emotional Pain in Brain for First Time
New research suggests physical pain may have a distinct brain “signature” that distinguishes it from emotional hurt. In the brain, the pain from broken leg...
Study: Acupuncture May Change the Way the Brain Perceives Pain
The idea of pricking your body with needles in order to relieve pain seems nothing if not counterintuitive, but thousands of acupuncture patients swear the...
Medicine: Pain Relief's Founding Father
He uses an aluminum wrist cane to walk across the expansive living room of his Mercer Island, Wash., home. He walks surprisingly quickly, despite the ar thritis...
Swimming: Formula: Hurt, Pain, Agony
Big Ten swimming is like Big Ten football, the best; and Indiana University's swimming team is the best in the Big Ten. Last week at Oak Park, Ill., the...
Medicine: Pain in the Foot
Foot doctors began to be called chiropodists in the 18th century just why is not certain.* Down the years they have winced as though somebody had stepped on...
Photo Essays
Strangers to Reason: LIFE Inside a Psychiatric Hospital, 1938
For all of the lighthearted and often downright frivolous material that appeared in LIFE through the years — and there was, thank goodness, a lot of...
The Day Einstein Died: A Photographer’s Story
Albert Einstein, whose theories exploded and reshaped our ideas of how the universe works, died on April 18, 1955, of heart failure. He was 76. His funeral and...
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FDA Warns Pregnant Women Of Migraine Medication Risks
U.S. health regulators are warning doctors and women of child-bearing age that half-a-dozen medications used to treat migraine headaches can decrease children’s...
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Chronic pain?
Chronic pain conditions now affect more than 116 million Americans, according to the Institute of Medicine, a figure that dwarfs the number of people who suffer from diabetes,...
Well: Pain Relievers Do Not Cause Asthma, Study Finds
Some parents worry about giving their children pain relievers like ibuprofen and acetaminophen, based on reports that children given the drugs are more likely to develop asthma....
Study links popular painkillers to sexual dysfunction in men
Might a contributing factor be the powerful drugs often prescribed to quell their pain? THIS STUDY analyzed data on 11,327 men (... THE QUESTION Men being treated for chronic pain ...
No pain relief, please, we're British
UK doctors are reluctant to aggressively treat pain. That includes prescribing painkillers, especially opiates -- the rampant use of which in the United States is widely...
