It is cold, hard, metallic and commonly associated with pain. Not a medieval torture instrument, but the vaginal speculum ...

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Patients fear the clinic’s closure will end their access to the latest research, clinical trials for new treatments, and ...

Health officials are warning travellers of a mosquito-borne virus that can cause debilitating joint pain, after cases emerged in areas of France.

The head of UNRWA said Friday that Gaza has "become the graveyard of children" and "starving people" amid the ongoing war ...

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Maryland’s cap on noneconomic damages treats human suffering as though it has a predetermined ceiling, writes.

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After the Kerrville flood, let’s leave the moralizing and politicizing alone and lean into what makes us human.

Scientists have uncovered a brain circuit linking physical pain to emotional suffering, offering new hope for chronic pain treatment.

The federal budget bill requires people on Medicaid to get recertified for eligibility twice a year. The expectation is that ...