2+ day, 23+ hour ago   (850+ words) The pain changed how the patient moved. Walking shifted to accommodate it, and ordinary daily activities became difficult. Then a scan performed for a completely unrelated health problem found the answer by accident. Fluorine-18 fluorodeoxyglucose positron emission tomography, better known…...

1+ week, 4+ day ago   (622+ words) Being bored is usually filed under mildly annoying. A randomized controlled trial out of Sweden suggests it does something measurable to the body: it makes pain arrive sooner. Researchers put 114 pain-free adults through a boring video, a funny one, or…...

4+ week, 1+ day ago   (966+ words) An estimated 58.5 percent of U.S. adults with diagnosed arthritis, roughly 30.8 million people, reported moderate to severe joint pain in 2023, according to a new analysis of federal survey data. The figure breaks down into 32.4 percent reporting moderate pain (about 17.1 million adults) and…...