Back Pain Spending Surge Shows No Benefit
Many popular treatments for back and neck pain may be ineffective or overused.
View ArticlePain as an Art Form
From Frida Kahlo to the Pain Exhibit, artists paint, draw and sculpt to express their pain.
View ArticleNo Prescription? Have Some of Mine
Young women and their friends commonly share or borrow prescription drugs.
View ArticleWhen Pain Goes Beyond Words
There's pain, and then there's serious, gosh-awful, don't-know-how-you'll-live-through-this pain. And you don't learn anything about yourself from the latter. It just is.
View ArticlePain Relief Through Photography
Merely looking at a photograph of a loved one can relieve the sensation of physical pain, a new study found.
View ArticleStopping Pain Without Drugs
In his new book "Stop Pain," sports medicine specialist Dr. Vijay Vad offers alternative therapies for easing pain and avoiding surgery and drugs.
View ArticleUnderstanding Childhood Stomachaches
In today's "18 and Under" column, pediatrician Dr. Perri Klass navigates the challenges of diagnosing and treating children with chronic stomachache.
View ArticleTreating Pain That Won't Go Away
Chronic pain can't be detected with a blood test or a scan. That makes treatment challenging and reimbursement from insurers even more difficult, reports today's Patient Money column.
View ArticleGiving Chronic Pain a Medical Platform of Its Own
The medical branch of the National Academy of Sciences estimates that 116 million Americans suffer from chronic pain, which can alter the nervous system over time.
View ArticleMany Fatal Overdoses Linked to Methadone
The drug accounted for 1.7 percent of the 257 million prescriptions written in 2009 for opioid pain relievers, but it was involved in 31.4 percent of overdose deaths.
View ArticlePoor Pain Control for Cancer Patients
Researchers found that nearly two-thirds of cancer patients said they were in pain or receiving pain medications, and roughly a third felt they needed more painkillers to fully treat their symptoms....
View ArticleAddicted to Painkillers, Unready for Help
The requirements for involuntary substance treatment vary widely across the nation, causing the standard of care to differ dramatically from one place to the next.
View ArticleChildhood: A Little Sugar Does Seem to Ease the Pain
Babies who tasted a sweet solution cried less after receiving shots than those given a placebo, but studies are difficult to compare because of varying methodologies.
View ArticleReally? Losing Sleep Reduces Your Pain Tolerance
Chronic sleep loss appears to lower tolerance for pain, though it's not clear why.
View ArticleAsk Well: Exercises for Shoulder Pain
The Phys Ed columnist Gretchen Reynolds answers a reader's question about shoulder pain and rotator cuff injuries.
View ArticlePhys Ed: The Right Kind of Sports Bra
Many women have long wondered whether breast movement, especially a lot of it, can affect running form.
View ArticleThe Problem of Breast Pain in Women Who Exercise
Researchers set out to examine the real-world consequences of being an active woman with sore breasts, an important quality of life issue that affects how, and how often, women work out.
View ArticleHard Cases: The Traps of Treating Pain
Doctors hate pain because they are rarely trained to manage it.
View ArticleThe Problem With Pain Pills
In the new e-book "A World of Hurt: Fixing Pain Medicine's Biggest Mistake," the New York Times reporter Barry Meier makes a strong case that opioid drugs used to treat chronic pain, like OxyContin,...
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