Touch—the first sense to develop in the womb—is fundamental to our bodily experience and our everyday lives. Yet, as the least studied of the five senses, it remains somewhat mysterious at the ...

A team led by HHMI Hanna Gray Fellow Shan Meltzer has created a detailed, cell-by-cell map of the spinal cord that offers a new framework for understanding chronic pain and provides a powerful new ...

Through the voices of its people, the map shouts. It depicts stress, albeit not so pronounced in some areas, including Pima County. From Atlanta, listen to Marian Chamberlain — 65, jobless, and no ...

He's a prominent example of a growing shift in health care, as more physicians trade positions at big hospitals for the efficiency and patient focus of ambulatory surgery centers.

The rising prices causing winces of pain at gasoline pumps are due, in large part, to the impact of the Iran war on the ...

Chronic pain is one of the most common health conditions worldwide. Back pain is the most frequently reported type, followed closely by head and face pain linked to the jaw joint, in the form of ...

For his family’s first overseas trip together, Tang Junjie carefully planned a holiday to Japan during China’s longest Lunar New Year break on record. Flights were booked months in advance by the ...

Sam Dalrymple’s narrative history on the shattering of South Asia, in which individuals, their actions, and their circumstances take center stage, is fresh and readable ...

Larissa Banitt is a registered nurse who combines her English and Nursing degrees in writing health content. She has worked on the floor on a medical-surgical unit and currently works providing care ...

Lindsay Curtis is a health & medical writer in South Florida. She worked as a communications professional for health nonprofits and the University of Toronto’s Faculty of Medicine and Faculty of ...

The war with Iran has entered its second week, and gas prices are continuing to spike across Southern California.

That results in longer trip times for individual passengers, which can sometimes be quite a bit longer if a series of pickups ...