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Belgian doctors discovered that some comatose patients develop the same "pain matrix" in the brain as healthy individuals do when subjected to pain stimuli. This gives further justification to medics administering painkillers to patients previously believed to have had no functioning pain receptors. Caregivers have b... |
8 October 2008
03:57 GMT |
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Injections are no fun, regardless of what some might say, but that could soon change with the invention of the painless 'microneedle', a device that works much in the same way as the needle of mosquitoes while sucking blood. In the case of the aforementioned insects, the whole process consists of blood bein... |
18 July 2008
05:07 GMT |
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Pain is an inspiration of reckless teen behavior, which revolves around controlled chaos. Gamers attempt as much damage to themselves as possible by flinging themselves from a rubber-band catapult. Using a system similar to the Burnout post-crash system, players will be able to steer their ragdoll to cause havoc, cha... |
24 March 2008
07:37 GMT |
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Nothing compares to the feeling one gets when the game he's been long awaiting to play gets closer and closer to the release date. Just think about how you feel when you hear the name of Grand Theft Auto 4 - new details, new information, new stuff - everything making you more and more interested in the title. We... |
4 March 2008
05:04 GMT |
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These odd rodents are ugly as hell. The mole rats are hairless, wrinkled, cold blooded (the only case known in mammals) and... totally insensitive to the pain induced by acids or chili peppers, according to a new research. Mole rats live in colonies in poor-oxygenated burrows about 2 m (6 ft) underground, in Eastern ... |
29 January 2008
03:08 GMT |
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In case you haven't heard, there's some serious competition for the Jackass title we could play on all major platforms this Fall. It's called Pain and you might know it as one of Sony's latest PSN games, that allows you to slingshot folks around in a carnival shooting gallery. You'll use a c... |
11 December 2007
14:51 GMT |
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PAIN is much more than a game, it's actually a creative, user-driven comedic experience that presents players with the unique opportunity to control and capture the irreverent style of humor found in television shows such as Jackass or Viva La Bam. The game boldly tackles a rarely explored area of video-gaming…... |
6 December 2007
03:45 GMT |
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Morphine, heroine and other opioid drugs are the best known painkillers, but they come with a high risk: in many patients they provoke addiction, the body requiring gradually increasing amounts to ease pain. A new study presented at the annual meeting of the Society for Neuroscience and carried on in rats revealed th... |
15 November 2007
04:10 GMT |
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No wonder some women prefer chocolate or other stuff to having sex. And in some cases, it's not about the unskilled man, as there are women suffering of vulvodynia - up to 16 % (!) (this means one woman in six, aged 18-64), for which sex is definitely not fun and pleasure. Vulvodynia ("vulva pain") causes pain o... |
10 November 2007
04:30 GMT |
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Gold can heal, only that you must know how to handle it. Physicians first used injections of gold salts in the early 1900s, as they were used to relieve arthritis causing pain and swelling. But this came with severe side effects: besides taking effect months later, the gold shot provoked rashes, mouth sores, kidney d... |
24 October 2007
06:48 GMT |
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There is a strong advocacy towards using cannabis for relieving pain in many conditions. A new study has come up with a surprising result: even if "moderate" doses of cannabis can ease pain, high doses actually boost it."Our study suggests that there is a therapeutic window for analgesia, with low doses being ineffec... |
24 October 2007
03:48 GMT |
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Chili peppers can send you to hell and maybe back (we don't know for sure…), but even so, what causes sufferance can also bring relief. Capsaicin, the 'hell-inducing' chemical from the jalapeños and habañeros is already a main ingredient in a balm for stiff joints and arthritis. A new study reveals how... |
4 October 2007
05:05 GMT |
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Animals, too, experience a profound feeling of sadness when their play/hunt/sex partner dies. Those studying the behavior of wild and domestic animals come with an increasing number of cases proving that animals are capable of pure sorrow when they lose someone close to them. Somehow, this behavior is linked to self-... |
22 August 2007
13:36 GMT |
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Aspirin is the universal panacea against headache. Others sustain that aspirin is beneficial for men and women over 50 prone to heart attack due to smoking, hypertension, diabetes, high cholesterol level, low level of HDL (good) cholesterol, severe obesity, alcoholism, genetic predisposition to early heart attack or ... |
31 July 2007
02:43 GMT |
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At last, you went out with that sexy bomb and suddenly that crazy itch has started. You feel like scratching anywhere…on the table, chair, floor. Well, researchers finally found that a mere protein is behind this shameful sensation of yours. A team led by Dr. Zhou-Feng Chen at Washington University School of Medicine... |
26 July 2007
07:11 GMT |
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There is no worse invention belonging to nature than pain. That gets even worse in the case of chronic pain, which unlike the acute pain linked with trauma, has no apparent physiological benefit and it is often called the "disease of pain". Complete and lasting relief of chronic pain is hard to achieve and often impl... |
16 July 2007
05:31 GMT |
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A headache makes you inefficient. No matter what are you trying to do, the pain captures all of your resources. It is normal, this is how we survived during our evolution in a painful world. Now, a German team at the University Medical Center Hamburg-Eppendorf led by Ulrike Bingel has found the brain nucleus that dec... |
6 July 2007
07:11 GMT |
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80 % of us suffer from back pains during our lives. In 90 % of the cases, the problem is solved in over 6 weeks. That's why it is important to follow some rules in daily life to decrease the number of painful episodes. The most frequent causes are diseases like arthrosis, muscular contracture, trauma, osteoporos... |
12 June 2007
14:11 GMT |
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Latino people know why they say "Salud!" ("health") when they clink glasses.Researches made in the last 20 years have showed that daily moderate alcohol consumption (especially red wine) has beneficial effects in fighting against heart attacks and strokes, controlling insulin levels (thus a possible cure for diabetes... |
9 June 2007
05:03 GMT |
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You surely know Italians and French find a delicacy in the frog legs. You too may enjoy them. In some countries, dishes on frog legs are called "slough chicken". And southern Europe is not the only place where people consume frogs. In Latin America the frogs of the genus Leptodactylus are extremely appreciated and ca... |
6 June 2007
15:46 GMT |
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Chronic pain can make your life miserable long after your injuries have actually healed. Standard analgesic drugs, like aspirin and morphines, are largely ineffective. Vania Apkarian, professor of physiology and of anesthesiology, at Northwestern's Feinberg School of Medicine, revealed that chronic pains can be ... |
6 June 2007
04:41 GMT |
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Many painkillers have undesirable side effects, because they don't have the ability to target just the damaged areas. That's why researchers are trying to find a painkiller that would work just on the injured tissue, leaving the rest of the body unaffected. A new class of painkillers speculates the pH diffe... |
31 May 2007
06:42 GMT |
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Romans considered themselves civilized, seeing the others - with the exception of the Greeks - as barbarians. But between 264 BC and 404 AD, the Roman society enjoyed some of the cruelest and inhuman games: the gladiator fights, a sport in which thousands of people were slaughtered in the Roman arenas for the delight... |
4 May 2007
07:01 GMT |
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Each day, more persons accusing chronic pains turn their attention to the mysterious homeopathy. In countries like Germany, France or UK, 30-70 % of the patients have visited at least once a homeopath. This science was developed by the German physician Samuel Hahnemann (1755-1843) and is not a natural medicine, like ... |
6 April 2007
09:48 GMT |
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