A series of studies have found men feel less pain when they are being treated by a woman compared to another man. Experts from Lund University in Sweden recruited healthy volunteers who were ...

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 ...

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 ...