Word: paines
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Dates: during 1990-1999
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Blessed or pained? Either route has us believing that Reich has had to sacrifice. If we consider him blessed, it is because the pain of his sacrifice is small compared to the magnitude of his blessing. If you listen carefully though, there is an undercurrent in Reich's article that makes this whole question of tone seem preposterous...
...surprise of the researchers, who report in the current Nature Medicine, the two sexes showed a striking difference in their responses. While the women were still generally pain-free three hours after having their teeth pulled, the males had no such luck. Their relief was slight and lasted only about an hour. No comparable gender difference in pain relief has yet been found with the more powerful and widely used opiates such as morphine and codeine...
...kappa opioids favor females? Could estrogen, the female hormone, somehow enhance the drugs' effectiveness, or might the male hormone, testosterone, hamper it? Another possibility, Levine suggests, is that women's brains have more--or more responsive--kappa receptors, enabling the kappa opioids to block pain more effectively...
While earlier tests had concluded that these opioids are not effective pain killers, other than for labor, some doctors suspect the results may have been skewed by a preponderance of male test subjects. Indeed, Levine now suggests that kappa opioids might be generally used to treat acute pain in women. Unlike morphine-like drugs, they have few unpleasant side effects, and they are not addictive...
...Simple blood tests can identify which patients with acute chest pain are likely to die from a heart attack. The tests detect proteins called cardiac troponins that are released by damaged heart muscle. Results are available in minutes, allowing doctors time to intervene...