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Category: Pain
Pain: When the professional becomes personal
For 10 long months, Philip Pizzo, MD, suffered from incapacitating nerve pain. Even worse, top medical experts were stumped. He describes his ordeal in a …
Stanford expert on back pain: “The important thing for people to know is that it’s treatable”
September is Pain Awareness Month and later this month, Stanford will host a Free Back Pain Education Day. The event, sponsored by the Division of …
More benefit than bite: Potential therapies from “pest” animals
A painful spider bite can make you question why such creatures exist. Yet just because "pests" like spiders, scorpions, and snakes lack the appeal that …
Comfort care: “We always have something to give”
SMS (“Stanford Medical School”) Unplugged is a forum for students to chronicle their experiences in medical school. The student-penned entries appear on Scope once a …
Advances in diagnosing and treating a painful and common jaw disorder
On New Years Eve, Australian rapper Iggy Azalea shared with her Twitter followers that she was diagnosed with a temporomandibular joint dysfunction (often referred to …
Graduate student explains pain research in two-minute video
Earlier this year I wrote about some fascinating research from the lab of chemist Justin Du Bois, PhD, who has been working with naturally occurring toxins …
Miniature wireless device aids pain studies
Here’s one thing I didn’t know: For every person who goes to the doctor to be treated for chronic pain, less than a half get …
New painkiller could tackle pain, without risk of addiction
Stanford researchers uncover painkiller and pain pathway of particular interest to millions of Asians with alcohol-metabolizing enzyme mutation.
Stanford researchers uncover painkiller and pain pathway of particular interest to millions of Asians with alcohol-metabolizing enzyme mutation.
More attention, funding needed for headache care
In case you missed it, the San Francisco Chronicle ran a story over the weekend on migraines - and researchers' ongoing search for a cause …
Study shows women prefer less-intense pain at the cost of a prolonged labor
As a friend's due date approached, she confided in me that the thought of going into labor was terrifying. It was her first pregnancy and …
Finding relief from lower back pain
If you thought a pain in the neck was inconvenient, try on chronic lower back pain for size. (Just kidding – both sound uncomfortable.) In a …
Do athletes feel pain differently than the rest of us?
With five days left in the 2014 Winter Olympics, here's an interesting question to ponder: Do athletes feel pain differently than the average person? As …
Toxins in newts lead to new way of locating pain
You have to love a medical story that starts with newts. Newt eggs to be precise. Back in the 1960s, a Stanford chemist Harry Mosher …
On being a parent with chronic pain
The Atlantic posted a moving piece today written by a mother whose severe scoliosis has left her body in a near-constant state of pain. The …
Image of the Week: The agony of pain
As my colleague wrote about last week, the current issue of Stanford magazine includes a feature, "Make It Stop," on the pain research happening here. The image above …