The hormone estrogen—which female animals typically have more of than males—triggers a molecular cascade in the gut that ...

Four tiny 3D organs connected themselves in a lab dish, forming a replica of the human pain pathway, in a new study. The discovery allows scientists to better understand chronic pain and how pain ...

Scientists have discovered a brain circuit that gives pain its emotional sting, explaining why some hurts linger as suffering. The breakthrough challenges our beliefs about how we process pain and may ...

Scientists have re-created a pain pathway in the brain by growing four key clusters of human nerve cells in a dish. This laboratory model could be used to help explain certain pain syndromes, and ...

Recent studies are pointing to the fact that kindness can decrease pain and lessen stress. As Dr. Kapoor notes, pain is largely an evolutionary mechanism to enhance survival and, hence, is largely ...

Stanford Medicine investigators have replicated, in a lab dish, one of the most prominent human nervous pathways for sensing pain. This nerve circuit transmits sensations from the body’s skin to the ...

Women are dramatically more likely than men to suffer from irritable bowel syndrome (IBS), a chronic condition causing ...

Gas that suddenly shows up as shoulder pain can feel confusing and even a little scary, especially when it hits after a meal ...

Three floors below Dmitriy Sheyn’s lab at Cedars-Sinai Medical Center, doctors remove degenerated intervertebral discs from patients with severe back pain. Instead of tossing the old discs, however, ...

The American College of Cardiology (ACC) expert decision pathway for chest pain can safely and effectively rule out acute coronary syndromes in most patients, but not for those with known coronary ...