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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...
Psychopaths and Callous Children Show Dysfunctional Brain Responses to People In Pain
Children who cruelly disregard other people’s pain and psychopathic criminal offenders show dysfunction in similar brain regions— but new research finds that the...
Restaurant and Prepared Foods Are Not Much Healthier Than They Were in 2005
We're bombarded with more messages to eat healthier -- cut back on salt, fat, and sugar -- and more products help us do so. But restaurants, fast food chains and...
Antidepressants Linked To Higher Risk of Complications After Surgery
The most popular class of drugs used to treat depression, the selective serotonin reuptake inhibitors (SSRIs), may increase risk of bleeding and the need for...
More Pain in Sichuan: Earthquake Kills at Least 184
Nearly two days after a magnitude 7.0-earthquake struck China’s Sichuan province, residents are still awaiting rescue as well as essentials like drinking water,...
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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18 and Under: The Pain of Constipation
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Have a headache?
Do not go overboard on the pain medicine ... These are prompts that send me to my medicine cabinet to pop a couple of Tylenol or ibuprofen. I throw these back without a whit of concern because...
