According to a massive survey of more than 353,000 adults of all ages by Gallup, almost half of Americans over the age of 18 suffers from chronic pain.
When you have a pain the first thing you’ll probably reach for is a pain killer, but a new study published in the Annals of Internal Medicine finds you probably shouldn’t be so quick to pop a pill.
A Miles City, Montana man is under treatment for a gunshot wound to the ankle. The wound was self-inflicted after he was denied pain killers for back pain.
I've often suspected the etymology of the word "dentist" came from some Latin word meaning both "sadist" and "pain maker". Well they don't like causing pain anymore than you like getting it. And now the Plasma Toothbrush might help deliver better fillings with less painful results.
A new study from the University of Ghent in Belgium, which studied the relationship between health professionals and patients with chronic pain, suggests that clinicians who don’t like their patients tend to discount the level of pain they suffer from.