He had no serious pain, and he remained high-spirited.

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This follows limited but successful testing in Brazil, where patients who underwent surgery with TranS1 catheters had no postoperative back pain and now lead active lives.

FORBES: Balancing Act

He was confined to a bed in the living room and was in pain, but had expressed no desire to die or to have anyone help him end his life, the jury heard.

BBC: London

His family said he had become very unwell, had been in a lot of pain and had clearly been losing a lot of weight, but no-one had seemed to know why he had not been recovering.

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"For most people who have some type of treatment, the most intense pain usually is gone within a few weeks, " he said, adding that if the patient had no treatment and the wound healed on its own, there may be prolonged pain.

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Mrs Marandran suffered no damage to her unborn child but had some muscular pain.

BBC: Paige Bain and Eileen Kennedy

No humane person who has ever had a sick family member, in blinding pain, unable to afford medical care, can argue against providing health care for everyone.

FORBES: Magazine Article

But the ground felt damp and cold under his knees and a whiff of sulfurous air stung his lungs and the cold sun playing on his skin seemed to stir the cigarette burns to pain, and the pain brought home to him that what had happened, and what was about to happen, were no dream.

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