"On a scale from one to ten, how would you rate your pain?" is the standard question doctors ask to assess pain. The problem ...

Asking people how much money they would accept to experience pain again can provide a more accurate and comparable measure of ...

A new study demonstrates that machine-learning strategies can be applied to routinely collected physiological data, such as heart rate and blood pressure, to provide clues about pain levels in people ...

Adults self-report their pain on a one to 10 numerical score, while children can point to an equivalent face scale -- from a green smiling face to a red crying face -- to indicate their pain. Newborns ...

Anyway, while I was managing this process, I found myself thinking a lot about pain, and observing the times in which I handled it reasonably well and other times that I handled it less well, and so I ...

Sickle Cell disease, or SCD, occurs in a person when their red blood cells have an unusual shape. Usually, they are shaped like a sickle, which makes the blood more difficult to flow through the body.

Reflexology is a form of massage with roots that go back to ancient Chinese medicine. The technique used relies upon a map of the feet, which identifies pressure points that supposedly correspond to ...

AI algorithms can assess the pain that someone with sickle cell disease is experiencing by using just their vital signs. Doing so could ensure people receive the most suitable pain management therapy ...