Word: paines
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Dates: during 1990-1999
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...Father's Day"), the elder couple nastily unloads their marital bloody laundry, referring periodically to their never-present, elusive son, all the while extracting damaging confessions from Nick and Honey. As the evening progresses, the two couples' elaborately deceptive language descends, drink by drink, into the monosyllabism of pain and truth...
...sleep. Since the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention delineated the symptoms of chronic fatigue syndrome in 1994, however, it has become clear that not all cases of exhaustion can be cured with rest. With CFS, fatigue continues for months or years, along with flulike symptoms of joint pain, headaches and muddled thinking. The cause of CFS still eludes doctors, but studies show that sometimes the culprit may be low blood pressure. In such cases, when CFS patients are given medications to stabilize their blood pressure, their symptoms subside...
...ordinary headache, a migraine results when tightened blood vessels in the brain repeatedly expand, squeeze surrounding nerves and then constrict again, resulting in excruciating pain that often leaves sufferers unable to function for days at a time. Migraines are triggered by a variety of sources, from caffeine to changes in weather to menstrual periods--catalysts, doctors believe, that result in a flood of serotonin that causes blood vessels in the brain to contract. Some of the more than 23 million Americans who suffer from migraines can find relief in a new drug, sumatriptan succinate, which blocks serotonin and prevents vessels...
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From headache sufferers to cancer patients, 50 million Americans live with pain, sometimes mild, sometimes crippling. Researchers are currently testing, in animals, a more convenient and safer way to deliver relief. Taking their cue from the birth-control implant Norplant, which is inserted under the skin and provides long-term contraceptive protection, researchers have packed a button-size insert with a powerful narcotic. Implanted under the skin, the device releases analgesic into the bloodstream continuously for three months. Tests on cancer patients will begin within a year...