In the early 1800s, leg amputations free of acute pain seemed impossible. However, the first widely used anesthetic, called ether, was right around the corner. Sixteenth-century physician Paracelsus ...

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An experimental pain-relieving drug delivery method for farm animals using microneedle patches may not have delivered an ...

An AI model could accurately identify goats in pain, opening up better treatment opportunities for animals and non-verbal patients. The patient arrived with a bladder stone, grimacing in pain and ...

“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-represented in ...

Detecting pain in animals isn’t exactly as easy as asking them how they’re feeling; they can’t talk, after all. There are ways of identifying signs of pain, however—animals may vocalize distress ...

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Researchers practicing good science must be concerned with the well-being of their laboratory animals; health problems, pain, and stress may introduce unwanted variables that can invalidate study ...

Because of my interests in the cognitive and emotional lives of nonhuman animals (animals), I was pleased to learn of an essay by Dr. Mirjam Guesgen titled "Animal pain is about communication, not ...

The patient arrived with a bladder stone, grimacing in pain and moping about. He wouldn’t even chew his cud. The patient, you see, was a goat. And while treated for his bladder stone — a common ...