pain
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What’s The Worst Pain?
Some people say that life is pain. Those people are optimistic: life isn’t pain, it’s pains, plural—tooth pain, back pain, breakup-pain, the pain of watching your parents grow old and die, the pain of downwardly adjusting your expectations for life, stomach pain and sinus pain, pain you can’t quite trace to any one single source…
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The ‘Holy Grail’ Of Safe Opioids Might Be One Step Closer To Reality
The ultimate goal of pain medicine—a powerful painkiller with few to no side effects, such as dependence or overdose—is still elusive. But a team of researchers from Wake Forest University in North Carolina believe they’ve come close to reaching it. Their latest study, published in Science Translational Medicine, details an experimental opioid that seems capable…
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A Woman’s New Tattoo Led To Three Years Of Chronic Pain, Doctors Say
There are plenty of bad (and cool!) tattoos out there, but few might ever be as regrettable as the one that apparently caused an immune disorder and years of chronic pain in a UK woman. The bizarre medical tale, detailed by her doctors this week in BMJ Case Reports, is apparently the first recorded instance…
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Scientists Figure Out Why Italian Family Can’t Feel Pain
An Italian woman, her two daughters, and her three grandchildren have always had trouble feeling pain. They can’t sense temperature. They break bones without noticing. Now, a team of scientists in the United Kingdom think they have figured out why.