I was in my early twenties, living in a little apartment two miles from my college campus in Colorado. It was a typical Wednesday night of studies, music and gossip, and it was my turn to be the chef ...
BIG LAKE, Minn. - In 2004 the story of the 3-year-old girl from Minnesota who doesn’t feel pain spread around the world. Now, about to graduate from high school, Gabby Gingras still can’t feel pain – ...
Like visual or auditory sensations, the body sensation 'pain' informs us about the world, or at least our experience in it. After I touched a hot plate, damaged cells from my fingers sent signals ...
When Noa Fleischacker had her first pap smear, she was struck by an unbearable, knife-like pain as soon as the speculum went in. “I literally was going to jump off the table,” Fleischacker recalled.