They look like they are sleeping. The suggestions they receive may be able to direct their whole mental energy against pain.

VOA: special.2010.03.30

In the nineteen seventies, a supervisor asked her if she would like to do clinical research about pain.

VOA: special.2010.05.04

If your answer is yes,you are like many millions of people worldwide who experience pain in the head.

VOA: special.2010.03.30

People since ancient times have used aspirin-like medicines to fight pain and reduce high body temperature.

VOA: special.2009.08.19

Others may get flu-like symptoms such as fever, muscle and joint pain and headaches.

VOA: special.2010.07.12

The pain can be temporary,mild and cured by a simple painkiller like aspirin.

VOA: special.2010.03.30

But he felt her absence like a deep pain.

VOA: special.2009.06.27

So we are looking at bio-markers, we're doing sophisticated X-rays, like functional MRI and spec-scanning to understand what happens in the brains of patients with fibromyalgia when they have pain, what happens to their brains when we treat that pain."

VOA: special.2011.08.02

"The pain was excruciating." "I never remembered a pain like that and I've had five children."

VOA: standard.2010.03.14

But no such mechanism exists for non-bank financial institutions like AIG whose failure would inflict great economic pain on the nation as a whole.

VOA: standard.2009.03.24

In the course of an entirely different experiment, Hargreaves and his team of researchers discovered that the skin produces its own capsaicin-like molecules, in response to pain.

VOA: standard.2010.05.04

But if a medication can block the capsaicin-like molecule from reaching the neuron, it could stop the brain from ever registering there was any pain to begin with.

VOA: standard.2010.05.04