Opioids have long been used to treat severe pain, though their use in the management of chronic pain remains somewhat controversial. Some people can tolerate opioids for years without any adverse ...

Men are twice as likely as women to develop stomach cancer. An achy back won’t show as a symptom until the cancer has spread to other parts of the body Back pain is a common cause of disability ...

The terrible pain started a week earlier, and she had already been to the emergency room twice. By Lisa Sanders, M.D. “You need to go back to the hospital,” the visiting nurse declared shortly ...

Klinefelter syndrome is a genetic condition in which a boy is born with an extra X chromosome. Instead of the typical XY chromosomes in men, they have XXY, so this condition is also called XXY ...

Many clients that I see suffer from chronic pain or chronic medical conditions ... are not explicitly told that this isn’t the case. Men, in particular, can find it hard to verbally express ...

There are millions of women across the country suffering from conditions such as endometriosis, chronic urinary tract infections (UTI) and Ehlers-Danlos syndrome ... be in pain than men, with ...

Chronic pain can be predicted within three days of an injury Lasting pain is linked to anxiety and how much two brain regions talk about the injury Date: October 24, 2024 Source: Northwestern ...

The study showed the more the hippocampus—the brain's memory center—talked to the cortex—involved in long term memory storage—the more likely the person is to develop chronic pain.

Hope Medicine Inc. reported positive interim results for monoclonal antibody HMI-115 in a phase II endometriosis trial that saw the mean non-menstrual pelvic pain score reduced by 50%. “HMI-115 is a ...

There are a great many things that men and women experience differently. A newly published study finds that chronic pain is one of them. It turns out that there are important distinctions in how ...