Coccydinia is inflammation and pain on the coccyx. This condition is more common in women due to differences in shape and angle of the pelvis and injury during childbirth. Coccydinia can cause ...

“Women are born with pain built in. It’s our physical destiny.” With those words, Kristin Scott Thomas’s character in the TV show Fleabag nailed a truth: that to be female is to be over ...

Because too many intimate procedures in women’s healthcare involve pain. Women are expected to tolerate that pain. And this isn’t the fault of individual doctors or nurses, it’s because not enough ...

Men and women don’t experience pain the same way. Give someone an electric shock; bind a tourniquet tighter and tighter around their leg; submerge their hand in icy water; prick them with a pin ...

The man, in his 30s, who is not being named due to reporting restrictions, has pleaded not guilty to sexual assault by ...

Surgery in earlier times was brutal – both for the doctor as well as patients. Riddled with intense pain, agony, and horrifying trauma that patients underwent, many doctors avoided conducting ...

Lander, MDMedically reviewed by Jeffrey S. Lander, MD Chest pain may indicate a heart attack in women and men but have other possible causes, including heart inflammation, a lung infection or ...

Women, in other words, are more sensitive to pain than men. They report feeling it more in just about every way: more intensely, more often, for a longer time. They grapple with more headaches ...

The trial commenced on Tuesday afternoon before Judge Ronan Munro and a jury at Mullingar Circuit Criminal Court ...

What's worse - a kick to the groin or childbirth? Men and women have long argued about which sex can handle pain better, but research appears to have answered that question. Studies over recent ...

For 20 years, doctors told Diana Falzone her pain was normal. “Well, that’s just how it is for some women,” she remembers one saying after she began experiencing unusually heavy and “very, ...