Invisible Pain
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Throbbing, gnawing, burning, hammering – when even doctors don't believe your pain condition is real
Fibromyalgia patients are stuck between doctors trying to decipher the disease, doctors who struggle to diagnose it and doctors who don’t believe it exists.
Nayantara Narayanan
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Gastric pain is the kick in the gut that can change a patient’s lifestyle forever
Managing food and eating right becomes the most important thing for the sufferer of gastric pain
Malika Halder
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No ordinary headache: 'I wouldn't even wish this upon my enemy'
The key to controlling migraine, many doctors and patients have found, is to identify and cut out headache triggers.
Soumya Rao
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The real reason why Modi says what he does – Hindu India accepts it
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Microcontrollers in EVMs, VVPATs do not recognise party and candidate, observes Supreme Court
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For better or for worse? Shifts in gender norms in India – in 12 charts
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What Sudhir Kakar (1938-2024) had to say on violence, secularism, and religion in India
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‘Supporter of BJP met me’: Surat candidates on the various reasons they withdrew from the election
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From 'wait-and-watch' to 'have babies': Women with period pain get more advice than treatment
There is little clarity on how much menstrual pain is considered clinically normal.
Vidya Balachander
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Pain is the silent epidemic that India's health systems are failing to handle
Pain is observed, assessed and treated differently depending on a person's age, gender and economic status.
Kanika Sharma