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The Medical Minute: The truth about pain

9/12/12

Why we experience pain and where it comes from, has a variety of answers. Included in these answers are many myths about pain, how we experience pain, and why, according to physician and staff experts at Penn State Hershey Medical Center.

Victoria Braithwaite

In Touch With...Victoria Braithwaite

5/17/12

Fish farming is booming to keep up with increased demand for seafood—but better aquaculture practices are needed to design healthier and more humane fisheries, says Victoria Braithwaite, professor of fisheries and biology. A decade's worth of research by Braithwaite and her colleagues suggesting that fish feel pain has had a ripple effect among fish farmers, anglers, and animal ethics groups.

Probing Question: Do women have a higher pain threshold than men?

11/10/08

It's a familiar sitcom scene: A woman in labor shows Herculean strength while her "birth coach" husband faints dead away.

Many believe that the pain of childbirth would turn the steeliest man into a quivering pile of jelly, and everyone has heard the stories of peasant women stoically giving birth in the fields only to return to work the same day.

Are women built for pain?