Women feel more pain than men, studies have shown. New research reveals one reason why. Women have more nerve receptors, which causes them to feel pain more intensely than men, according to a ...

In addition, men experience less pain after surgery when asked about it by a woman than by a man. This was true despite the fact that the men and women involved in the study were dressed the same ...

This may help explain why women seem more likely than men to experience chronic pain and tend to experience less pain relief from treatment with the most prescribed pain medications—opioids.[ ...

Physicians treat men and women differently when it comes to pain — women in hospital wait longer to be seen and are less likely to receive pain medication than men, finds a study comparing how ...