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Posts Tagged ‘men’

• A Pained Life: Gender Bias in Pain Treatment

  May 29th, 2013 by Carol Levy, Columnist

  The typical patient with chronic pain is a 55-year-old woman. The typical subject in a chronic pain study is an 8-week-old male mouse. That was the finding of pain researcher Jeffrey Mogil at McGill University in Montreal in 2010. A…

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• Men with Fibromyalgia Often Go Undiagnosed

  January 1st, 2013 by Richard Lenti

  Fibromyalgia is one of the most difficult conditions to diagnose because its symptoms – chronic pain, fatigue and mood changes – are often mistaken by doctors for other conditions. According to research published in Arthritis Care & Research, only one…

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