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Where Doesn't It Hurt? Women Report Feeling More Pain Than a Man
While results tended to confirm previous clinical findings — i.e., that female fibromyalgia or migraine patients report more pain than their male counterparts — the search unearthed previously unreported gender differences in pain intensity for particular diseases, for example acute sinusitis and “cervical spine disorders,” more commonly known as neck pain more »
A Web Resource Helps Doctors Calculate Life Expectancy of Older Patients
A team led by researchers from the San Francisco VA Medical Center and the University of California, San Francisco has completed the first systematic review of prognostic indices used to calculate a patient’s life expectancy, and created a website that puts these indices in one central location. more »
Successful Aging and Sexual Satisfaction Remains Positive in Older Women
"While we cannot assess cause and effect from this study, these results suggest that maintaining a high level of sexual satisfaction may positively reinforce other psychological aspects of successful aging.” more »
Why Worry? Relationships and GAD
A new research study shows that worrying can be so intrusive and obsessive that it interferes in the person’s life and endangers the health of social relationships; the negative methods they use to cope — from over nurturing to extreme detachment — may be destructive more »
