As a psoriatic arthritis patient, describing your pain to your doctor is not always easy. Many patients have spent years bouncing from their general physician to different specialists, only to have ...

Experts highlight “nociplastic pain,” a newly defined pain mechanism changing how chronic pain is understood and treated Many chronic pain patients suffer not from damage, but from a sensitized ...

Breast cancer is the most common cancer in women besides skin cancer. According to the American Cancer Society, the disease accounts for about 30 percent of new cancers diagnosed yearly in women.

(THE CONVERSATION) For people with chronic gynecological pain conditions, pain can be constant, making everyday activities like sitting, riding a bicycle and even wearing underwear extremely ...

Where do you turn to for help when your back surgery fails to provide pain relief or improved functioning? Do you elect to undergo more surgery? From 1998 to 2008, the number of low-back surgeries in ...

UCSF researchers showed that estrogen can turn on pain signals in the gut, offering new insights into conditions like irritable bowel syndrome, especially for women.

How do the normal pains of everyday life, such as headaches and backaches, influence our ability to think? Recent studies suggest that healthy individuals in pain also show deficits in working memory ...

Women are dramatically more likely than men to suffer from irritable bowel syndrome (IBS), a chronic condition causing abdominal pain, bloating, and digestive discomfort. Now, scientists at UC San ...

Where do you turn to for help when your back surgery fails to provide pain relief or improved functioning? Do you elect to undergo more surgery? From 1998 to 2008, the number of low-back surgeries in ...