An intense description of suffering arrived in a mailing from an expressive arts gallery: My arms reach upward as the mind and hair are disintegrating, reaching through burning into the light.

The ability of fish to feel pain has been a long-running debate in the scientific community. On one side, you have the naysayers. They believe that fish are nothing more than living “reflex machines,” ...

Chronic pain lasts longer for women than men, and new research suggests differences in hormone-regulated immune cells, called monocytes, may help explain why. In a new paper in Science Immunology, ...

Hormone-regulated immune cells produce IL-10 to resolve pain more effectively in males, offering a potential new target for non-opioid chronic pain treatments.

Researchers at Michigan State University have identified a specific type of immune cell that helps explain why men tend to recover from inflammatory pain faster than women. The finding, published in ...