Chest pain is a common presenting complaint in clinical practice and a leading cause of emergency department visits. However, the assessment and management of cardiac causes of chest pain in female ...

Historian Shailaja Paik, awarded the MacArthur Fellowship, explores Dalit women's histories, challenging caste biases and ...

As New Zealand’s population ages, the number of people dying each year will rise rapidly. With hospices already experiencing funding shortages, who will care for us at the end of our lives?

For the past five months, she had been tortured by pain boring into her back, an inch to the left of her spine. It was as if ...

Lower back pain is the leading cause of disability worldwide, affecting 619 million people in 2020, according to a 2013 ...

A trainer shares the exercise that can best treat lower back pain. Discover exactly how to do it and why it works.

Spinal manipulation alone was no more effective than guideline-recommended medical care for low back pain (LBP), results of a randomized comparison study showed. Of the first-line nonpharmacologic ...

If you notice yourself waking with various aches and pains but you’re not ready to invest in a whole new mattress, a mattress topper can help. The best mattress topper for back pain reduces pressure ...

Oluseun Olufade, MD, is an Orthopedic Surgeon and Assistant Professor of Orthopedics at the Emory School of Medicine. Rest and changes in activity can help treat back spasms that cause lower back pain ...

I'm turning 28 in a few weeks, which means I've officially been struggling with debilitating back pain for over half of my life. After a scoliosis and tethered spinal cord diagnosis at the age of 11, ...

Proponents say they help build muscle, increase bone density, promote lymphatic drainage, and more. Turns out I was right to ...