Abstract: Recently, there has been significant progress in automatic pain assessment based on facial expression analysis. However, the performance of pain assessment remains unsatisfactory, due to a ...

Learn how stigma and bias affect women’s pain assessment and treatment in this fifth article in a series on stigma in healthcare. Abstract Stigma due to gender is a pervasive issue in healthcare that ...

Abstract: Assessing the flexibility of spine and hip joints is essential for providing appropriate treatment for non-specific low back pain. In general, posture assessment is subjective, and its ...

Kevin Vigilante is the former Chief Medical Officer at Booz Allen Hamilton, where he also lead the Health Futures Group. Pain treatment is challenged by an impenetrable epistemological problem: We ...

Pain is hard to measure. One person’s “ouch” is another’s agony. Now, scientists say they’ve found a better way of assessing pain: putting a price on it. By translating pain into dollars, they’ve ...

The Orissa High Court, upon considering the submissions and the evidence, gave significant weight to the screenshot (Annexure-4) provided by the petitioner, which “apparently shows ‘no records found’” ...

Scientists at the NYU Pain Research Center have identified which receptor in prostaglandins—the hormone-like substance targeted by common painkillers—causes pain but not inflammation. The findings, ...

WASHINGTON — The U.S. Air Force is making physical fitness assessments biannual for all airmen and introducing a 2-mile run as part of the service’s fitness initiative in the new year, the Air Force ...