Pain

Health issues affect men and women differently

The differences between men and women run deep. Very deep. Right down to the level of what goes on inside the billions of cells that make our bodies tick.

But the world of medical science, which you'd think would be on top of this, has been somewhat slow to recognise it.

For decades, most health research has been based largely on human studies of men only, or of male lab animals.

It wasn't done to deliberately shut out women and their differences.

Is trying to transcend pain a pointless activity?

And it seems like a popular one — if the proliferation of increasingly specific painkillers and the popularity of movements like effective altruism is anything to go by.

We don't need to be neuroscientists to understand why: pain hurts.

But as Clemson philosophy Professor Todd May suggests, perhaps we need to ask ourselves whether we would genuinely like to be rid of certain sorts of pain.

The Natural Way To Fight Back Against Chronic Pain

"I ended the day after my 40th birthday curled up in bed, trying not to let my three young children hear my sobs. I'd awakened that morning with a 101°F fever and the strange symptoms I'd been battling on and off for years, but this time the painful red rash that snaked its way across my upper body was the worst it had ever been.