Pain is hard to measure. One person’s “ouch” is another’s agony. Now, scientists say they’ve found a better way of assessing pain: putting a price on it. By translating pain into dollars, they’ve ...

Patients should be able to use images and metaphors alongside traditional medical scales to describe their pain to doctors, a new study says. Patients should be able to use images and metaphors ...

Artificial intelligence is helping health-care providers better assess their patients’ discomfort. For years at Orchard Care Homes, a 23‑facility dementia-care chain in northern England, Cheryl Baird ...

Joshua Pate has received speaker fees for presentations on pain and physiotherapy. He receives royalties for children's books. Dale Langford has received honoraria and research support from the ...