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Why emotions can feel so painful – and what it means for painkillers

A new understanding of the link between emotions and physical pain is helping identify the root causes of our pain, and why physical and emotional pain so often coexist

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We are only just beginning to understand what causes nociplastic pain

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Viewing chronic pain as its own illness is providing better treatments

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New ways to measure pain can help us communicate how bad it really is

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Anthrax bacteria in lung. Coloured scanning electron micrograph (SEM) of a cluster of anthrax bacteria (Bacillus anthracis) in a capillary of the lung. These rod-shaped, Gram-positive bacteria are highly pathogenic. Commonly an infection of livestock, B. anthracis is transmitted to humans by contact with contaminated animal hair, hides or excrement. Two forms of the disease occur: pneumonia in the lungs (woolsorter's disease), and cutaneous anthrax, which causes a large boil at the site of the bacteria's entry. Antibiotic treatment, if prompt, may be effective for the skin infection. Pulmonary anthrax is fatal in most cases. Magnification: x540 at 6x7cm size. x1750 at 7.5x9.5"

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The new pain treatments that may finally stem the need for opioids

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What is pain, how does it work and what happens when it goes wrong?

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Being exposed to pre-eclampsia in the uterus may raise a person's later risk of coronary heart disease and strokes

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Pre-eclampsia may raise a fetus’s risk of heart disease in later life

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Leprosy bacteria may hold the key to helping the liver regenerate

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The science of a healthier, happier life

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We now know why some poos float and others sink

Experiments with mouse and human faeces have provided the most definitive proof yet that gas-producing gut microbes are responsible for making faeces float

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Australia’s life expectancy has risen to third-highest in the world

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Pandemic terrorism risk is being overlooked, warns leading geneticist

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Probiotic coated in nanoparticles may ease inflammatory bowel disease

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Many anterior cruciate ligament knee injuries can heal without surgery

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