Women may experience more chronic pain due to differences in their immune responses and higher levels of leptin. This ...

Current treatments for neuropathic pain (pain caused by nerve damage) include anticonvulsants, antidepressants, and opioids.

Researchers at the University of Calgary have uncovered biological differences between the sexes in how chronic pain is ...

Women are more likely to experience chronic pain than men, with immune cell differences and the leptin hormone playing a key ...

A new study may help to explain why there is an over-representation of women experiencing chronic pain compared to men and why pain medication may not be as effective for women as it is for men.

A new study from the University of Calgary may help explain why women are more likely than men to experience chronic pain.

Women reveal their reliance on painkillers and how cultural expectations force them to ignore body signals while experts suggest healthier approaches to pain.

If pain is a message telling us to rest, or hydrate, or attend to any of our other survival needs, why are we so dead set on ...

Vulvodynia is a chronic pain condition affecting the vulva which is usually misdiagnosed or ignored and thus makes many women ...

Her feet were throbbing and her hands ached, all from the neuropathy—nerve pain caused by chemotherapy due to breast cancer. “Exhausted and in pain, I wondered how I could keep going,” Dana ...