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Initial weeks of the human gestation period during which a fetus cannot feel pain, according to a controversial new study...
Number of states that have recently passed laws requiring doctors to inform women seeking abortions after the 20th week of their pregnancies that their fetuses can feel pain...
ACUPUNCTURE MAY DO YOUR BODY GOOD Patients with fibromyalgia, a chronic, incurable and widespread pain illness, know it's a hard condition to treat. But Mayo Clinic doctors can offer some relief: in a study of 50 patients, six acupuncture treatments given over two to three weeks significantly improved their symptoms of pain and fatigue...
That finding comes from the Nurses' Health Study, a long-term project involving more than 80,000 women. Most of them took aspirin for pain. But when the researchers looked deeper, they found that those who took more than 14 regular-strength (325 mg) aspirins a week for more than 10 years lowered their risk of colorectal cancer by 53%, and those who took fewer aspirins--6 to 14 a week--were 22% less likely to come down with this often fatal disease. That could be important news, especially if you are at high risk for colorectal cancer or have...
...most dramatic benefits of the heart-imaging revolution will probably show up first in emergency rooms. About 5.5 million people go to the hospital each year complaining of chest pain. Most of them are not suffering a heart attack, but it can be very tricky to separate out which ones have indigestion or a strained muscle from those who have something much, much more dangerous. A noninvasive test that shows whether or not the cardiac blood vessels are blocked could help make the diagnosis a lot easier. "We used to say to patients who came in with chest pain...