Brabon is the Melbourne author of The Memory Artist and The Shut Ins. And while she's lived with chronic pain since her early ...

In the midst of turbulent times, it can be hard not to fixate on the troubles of the present moment. Here's how hope can ...

Born into poverty and abandoned by her parents, Andrea Evangelina Rodríguez Perozo rises from a life selling sweets in the street to become the first female Dominican doctor in 1911 ...

Many people don’t realize that there are various health reasons why someone might feel uncomfortable showing their teeth when ...

“In the end, I thought, well, for all my working life, I’ve encouraged doctors to have a doctor and then be a good patient. I thought I’d better do it myself,” he says. With huge trepidation, he rang ...

Among 347,468 individuals who had lived with persistent pain for over 3 months, clinical symptoms of depression and anxiety ...

Chronic pain deeply influenced Frida Kahlo and Vincent Van Gogh, shaping their art as a reflection of suffering, resilience, ...

Approximately 40 percent of adults with chronic pain experience depression or anxiety, according to a review published online ...

Joe Fusco Jr. is a Worcester humorist/stand-up poet. He hosts the Richard Fox Poetry Series at Root and Press Café and Books ...

These days, Alissa Quart’s attention has broken into strange shapes. But she has found a reprieve in one thing: poetry.

If machines now compose symphonies, diagnose illness, write poetry, and even simulate empathy, then the human role shifts—not toward redundancy, but toward something more deliberate. We become ...