Pain

As many as 20 percent of war veterans return from combat in Afghanistan and Iraq with post-traumatic stress disorder (PTSD) or major depression, according to a 2008 report from the RAND Corporation.

Office workers exhibit symptoms of dry eye

New clues to fibromyalgia's origins could crack the case of chronic pain

The Centers for Disease Control and Prevention highlight the urgent need for changes in prescription practices in a new report

Despite its popularity, opinions on acupuncture are divided

Our ability to pinpoint pain varies across the body, and in a specific pattern. Christie Nicholson reports

 

Let me tell you a story about how people invested in scientific discovery sometimes actively impede scientific progress. I'm a science and medical journalist and the editor of the Multiple Sclerosis Discovery Forum, a web site for MS researchers and clinicians.

Alexander Shulgin, the most prolific psychedelic chemist in history, has died at the age of 88. I interviewed Shulgin and his wife and co-researcher Ann at their home in California in 1999, when I was researching my 2003 book Rational Mysticism.

The NFL not only publicly denied evidence that long-term brain damage could result from concussions suffered by its players, but worked to undercut it

Researchers recommend that dentists and other health practitioners receive training in illusion awareness (my words, not theirs), so that they may counteract these and related perceptual effects.

The past couple posts have described some pretty severe experiments on octopuses, including: showing how octopus arms can grow back after inflicted damage and how even severed octopus arms can react to stimuli.

Want to know an effective way to reduce pain from burns? Cover the affected red area, so you are unable to look at it. Ideally, use a blue bandage.