Black women with chronic pain have more psychological and physical distress
...cal School's Department of Anesthesiology and pain specialist at the U-M Health System's Center for Interventional Pain Medicine. The study involved responses from 1,192 women with chronic pain, about 91 percent of them white and 9 percent of black. Black women in the study were more likely to report disability...UK liver services need urgent improvement
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...ad researcher and Mayo Clinic ear, nose and throat specialist Jens Ponikau, M.D. "Instead we found that these toxic proteins are released into the mucus, and not in the tissue. Therefore, scientists might need to take not only the tissue but also the mucus into account when trying to understand what causes chro...University of Newcastle upon Tyne to lead UK Stroke Research Network
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