pain

WASHINGTON (AP) — Is the pain stabbing or burning? On a scale from 1 to 10, is it a 6 or an 8? Over and over, 17-year-old Sarah Taylor struggled to make doctors understand her sometimes debilitating levels of pain, first from joint-damaging childhood arthritis and then from fibromyalgia. “It’s really hard when people can’t […]

How many people look at a glass ball and think about where they can place it? One man in China found out the hard way when he was rushed to the hospital after sticking a glass ball up his butt. He said he did it for fun, but where’s the fun in sitting in pain […]

According to a new study, the painkiller acetaminophen — best known as Tylenol — does not help treat a particular type of pain. The researchers…