September is Pain Awareness Month, and more than 51 million Americans report living with chronic pain. Over the past couple of decades, experts say increased prescriptions of opioid medications were ...
Longer thumbs mean bigger brains, scientists have found—revealing how human hands and minds evolved together. Subscribe to our newsletter for the latest sci-tech news updates. Researchers studied 94 ...
When your back constantly hurts, you might think you know where the pain is originating. But you might also be wrong, because the brain can create pain where it doesn't exist.