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L. Dye. Did that dog just smile at you? May 11, 2010.
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C. Johnson. Do redheads feel pain differently? Aug. 5, 2010.
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A. Rufus. Why your race or gender may affect how much pain you feel. Feb. 17, 2012.
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X. Balwit. Raising welfare for lab rodents. July 21, 2024.
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W. Kremer. Why are placebos getting more effective? Oct. 20, 2015.
P. Roxby. Stress is ‘barrier to feeling empathy for strangers’. Jan. 16, 2015.
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R. Pomeroy. Anti-inflammatory drugs like ibuprofen are used to treat chronic pain. What if they cause it? May 16, 2022.
R. Pomeroy. Why is the placebo effect getting worse, but only in America? Jan. 1, 2022.
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L. Moseley. Of mice and men. May 21, 2010.
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K. Oakes. This scientist says pain research must include more female mice. July 13, 2016.
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P. Lam. Canadian study offers important clue to why some back pain becomes chronic. May 20, 2022.
E. Chung. Sometimes, men feel more pain than women. Jan. 15, 2019.
K. Clarke. The pros — and cons — of empathy. January 30, 2017
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B. Seidman. Pain response may differ in males, females. June 30, 2015.
M. Breen. Does pain relief vary by sex? Sept. 7, 1999
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D. Muse. Gender equality? I smell a rat. July 15, 2016.
S. Florentine. Rats! Sexism really is everywhere. July 14, 2016.
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S. Scutti. The real–and growing–effects of fake pills. Oct. 27, 2016.
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C. Norris (that’s right, Chuck Norris). Pain treatment needs to be a greater priority. June 23, 2023.
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A. Nastasi. Is electromagnetic hypersensitivity a real illness? July 24, 2017.
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T. Lindeman. How medical gaslighting leaves endometriosis patients desperate for help. March 17, 2023.
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T. Lindeman. What do you do when your doctor doesn’t believe you’re in pain? March 15, 2023.
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R. Roberts. Fibromyalgia: Living with mystery pain. May 4, 2023.
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R. Bahl. Anti-inflammatory drugs may lead to chronic pain. May 20, 2022.
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C. Gregoire. Placebo effect puzzle has scientists scratching their heads. October 13, 2015.
B. Greenwood. Pain: there may be a difference for men, women. June 30, 2015.
AFP/Relaxnews. Stress may keep you from empathizing with strangers, study finds. Jan. 16, 2015.
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W. Watkinson. Medical trials are in jeopardy due to extreme hypochondria in Americans. Oct. 10, 2015.
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S. Luntz. Male and female mice process pain differently. June 30, 2015.
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E. Spivak. This fruit makes mice go bananas, and psychologists have a reason why. May 27, 2022.
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S. Marin. Les hommes et femmes ne se rappellent pas de la douleur de la meme maniere. Jan. 10, 2019.
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P. Asanga. Do women have a higher pain tolerance than men? July 4, 2024.
J. Nalewicki. Male mice are terrified of bananas. Here’s why. May 28, 2022.
T. Ghose. ‘Stranger danger’ makes people less empathetic. Jan. 15, 2015.
A. Blaszczak-Boxe. Not in the mood: study in mice sheds light on human libido. April 22, 2014.
S. Williams. Yeast infections, chronic pain linked, study suggests. Sept. 21, 2011.
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J. Naish. Why taking painkillers like ibuprofen can make you feel worse. August 9, 2022.
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B. Ferreira. How male researchers are stressing out lab rats. April 30, 2014.
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L. Tracy. More than meets the (human) eye: headache researchers use facial detection software as an automated readout of pain in mice. Oct. 26, 2022.
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G. Fish. Women have been left out of medical history – and it’s lethal. Nov. 16, 2015.
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T. Crawford. Men and women may feel pain differently. July 4, 2015.
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A. Katsnelson. What the rat brain tells us about yours–the evolution of animal models for neuroactive medicine. April 13, 2017.
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M. Fox. Men stress out mice, researchers find. April 28, 2014.
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L. Tracy. Automated mechanical stimuli delivery in behavioral testing. June 20, 2024.
A. Marin. Move over alpha4: nicotinic receptor alpha6 subunit identified as potential pain target. June 4, 2015.
S. Sutherland. A move toward sex equality in preclinical research. May 28, 2014.
S. Sutherland. The power of the mighty mouse: a conversation with Jeffrey Mogil. May 25, 2012.
M. Talkington. Sex and drugs and stress and genetic variation: very complicated indeed. Oct. 28, 2011.
M. Talkington. Mice demystify a perplexing pain. Sept. 26, 2011.
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S. Sarkar. Playing Rock Band together lowers stress and makes people more empathetic, study says. Jan. 16, 2015.
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S. Jacoby. Americans are strangely likely to fall for fake pain drugs. October 13, 2015.
S. Jacoby. The upsetting reason why we don’t always know how meds affect women. July 14, 2015.
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A. Marin. 2015 Research Highlights: Sex differences in mechanisms underlying pain. July 21, 2015.
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M.E. Williams. Why you have a headache right now — and the surprising way you can prevent the next one. May 14, 2022.
S. Gray. Bombshell report identifies major flaw in animal testing. May, 2014.
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B. Wu. Stress could be why we don’t empathize. Jan. 21, 2015.
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C. Todd. This is why stubbing your toe hurts so much. April 17, 2018.
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D. Engber. Some animals are more equal than others. April 11, 2016.
J. Festante. Are lab mice afraid of men? May 1, 2014.
D. Engber. Septic shock. Feb. 13, 2013.
D. Engber. The trouble with Black-6. November, 2011.
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K. Weintraub. Not just a disco-loving geneticist. March 19, 2016.
J. Mast. In radical claim, study suggests inflammation wards off chronic pain instead of causing it. May 11, 2022.
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J. Arce. Men and women perceive and process pain differently: study. July 1, 2015.
A. Francis. Pain kills sexual drive in females, study in mice suggests. April 24, 2014.
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C. McMurray. Robots boost data consistency in rodent studies reliant on mechanical, optogenetic stimulation. May 15, 2024.
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A. Duhaime-Ross. Scientists discover that male and female mice process pain differently. June 29, 2015.
A. Duhaime-Ross. Lab mice fear men but not women, and that’s a big problem for science. April 28, 2014.
A. Duhaime-Ross. New federal rules will force scientists to use more female lab animals. May 14, 2014.
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E. Bothwell. Animal study papers ‘should include independent confirmation’. Jan. 22, 2017.
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B. Resnick. The wierd power of the placebo effect, explained. July 7, 2017.
B. Resnick. Do animals feel empathy? Inside the decades-long quest for an answer. Feb. 8, 2016.
S. Locke. Lab mice get stressed out from men. And that could mean problems for science. April 28, 2014.
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R. Ellis. Using anti-inflammatory drugs may prolong back pain. May 12, 2022.
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M. Marill. Women’s pain is different from men’s–the drugs could be too. March 19, 2019.
N. Stockton. Science has a huge diversity problem…in lab mice. July 13, 2016.
J. Walsh. Mice show pain on their faces just like humans. May, 2010.
N. Cohen. Beware the epiphany-industrial complex. Aug. 18, 2019.
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A. Marturana. Study: it’s harder having empathy for strangers. Jan. 16, 2015.