National Geographic - USA (2020-01)
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Hanna LeBuhn, who suffers from pain in her jaw joints, watches the mesmerizing motion of jellyfish on a virtual reality headset ...
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of heat or smears of cream laced with capsaicin, the chemical compound that makes chili pep- pers spicy. What the researchers ha ...
in the transmission of pain messages from noci- ceptive neurons to the spinal cord. The protein, christened Nav1.7, sits on the ...
Pesach Feldman, 76, takes a break from a swim in Tel Aviv, Israel. Bypass surgery and 15 stents didn’t relieve the former paratr ...
transformative. “It made all the difference in the world as far as being able to go places,” she says, adding that her post-stro ...
Linda Grubb, who has suffered from chronic pain since having a stroke, celebrates fin- ishing a so-called zero K, a race of less ...
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Daniel Boltz kisses his eight-month-old daughter, Peyton, before giving her a bath. Peyton was born with neonatal absti- nence s ...
Yudhijit Bhattacharjee has been a contributing writer since 2017. He is the author of a nonfiction thriller, The Spy Who Couldn’ ...
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LEFT Fernando Irizarry’s addiction began with pain medications he took after an acci- dent. He invited me to observe his life on ...
STORY AND PHOTOGRAPHS BY DAVID GUTTENFELDER Seeking relief from pain, many Americans get addicted to prescribed opioids and then ...
CLOCKWISE FROM TOP LEFT I talked with this woman about her life on the streets and looked at photos of her from an earlier time. ...
HOW WOMEN’S HEALTH Women’s health and wellness concerns are dismissed and politicized more than men’s and researched and priorit ...
WELLNESS ISSUE JANUARY 2020 GETS SHORTCHANGED 77 ...
S AN EMERGENCY MEDICINE PHYSICIAN since the mid-1990s, I’ve cared for all sorts of patients: old and young, rich and poor, male ...
But without loud-and-clear advocacy, the research will not get funded and the policies will not get overhauled. It’s only by fin ...
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