A New Focus on Easing the Pain
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David Thibault grows orchids as a hobby, but the elegant flower on his bedside tray did little to lift his spirits. He stared out the window of his room at George Washington University Hospital, waiting for lab results that could tell him if he had months, weeks or maybe only days to live. A mon...
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By Lucle R. Willsie, Havelock News, N.C.  Feb. 6--A massage can be a great way to relieve stress. The Community  Coalition Against Family Violence hopes it's a great way to raise money, too.
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It&#39;s a lesson that children learn even before their ABCs - say you&#39;re sorry when you have hurt someone. But now it&#39;s being taught in the grown-up world of medicine as a surprisingly effective way to soothe patients and head off malpractice lawsuits.
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Here's some help for those between a rock and a hard place.
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When Dr. Julio Bonis awoke one Sunday  morning with a sore shoulder, he could not figure out what he  had done. It felt like a sports injury, but he had been a bit  of a couch potato lately.
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The toll of chronic pain is physical, emotional and, often, economic.
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Patients with degenerative disc disease in their spines may have an alternative to getting their vertebrae fused, which alleviates pain but limits motion.
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A new awareness of promoting Âan image of joy and wellness.Â
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Alternative therapies such as acupuncture and spinal manipulation may be worth a try to help relieve neck, back and knee pain. That&#39;s the conclusion of a trio of studies that appear in the Dec.
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Dr. Shahrzad Mavandadi, of the University of Pennsylvania,  Philadelphia, and colleagues examined the effects of pain on  the response to depression treatment in 524 men, 60 years of  age or older, who were seen at a VA medical center.
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A gene therapy treatment that helped make cells more sensitive to the body's own painkillers not only helped ease arthritis pain in mice but also reduced other symptoms, researchers said on Friday.
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It has long been clear that chronic stress wreaks havoc on our health. Scientists have now found molecular signs of this harm. In a study of mothers of chronically ill children, the cells
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Researchers have discovered a gene mutation which prevents otherwise healthy carriers from feeling pain.
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Doctors hope to use the body's own nerves to bridge the gap in the spinal cord left by paralysing injuries.
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US researchers have recently found that the acupuncture technique does actually offers pain relief and improves freedom of movement.
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US scientists show how the body's own natural stress hormone could soothe post-traumatic stress disorder.
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Chronic pain may permanently shrink the brain, researchers believe.