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 ...

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 ...

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, ...

A pair of diamonds that formed hundreds of kilometers deep in Earth’s malleable mantle both contain specks of materials that form in completely opposing chemical environments—a combination so unusual ...

Introduction Paediatric hospitalisation, encompassing the period from admission to discharge, often involves feelings of pain, fear and anxiety, primarily due to clinical diagnoses and, more ...

An observational pain assessment using facial expressions is a reliable method for predicting self-reported pain intensity in patients shortly after surgery, especially when their ability to ...

Do you hate fun? Is the world just not bleak enough for you right now, so you feel the need to tone things down a notch and drain a little more enjoyment from the human experience? Oh boy, is there a ...

Objective The objective of this study is to evaluate the comparative benefits and harms of opioids and cannabis for medical use for chronic non-cancer pain. Design Systematic review and network ...

The Critical Care Pain Observation Tool was strongly correlated to established pediatric pain scales and found to be valid and reliable for pain assessment in pediatric patients who are critically ill ...