We've all heard someone claim they have a "high pain threshold" as if it's a mark of strength or resilience. But does science support the idea that some people genuinely feel less pain than others?

Researchers linked three Neanderthal-derived variants in the SCN9A gene to heightened sensitivity to skin-pricking pain in modern humans, suggesting our ancient ancestors may have experienced pain ...

Reserachers found that people who were more active in their free time had a lower chance of having various types of chronic pain 7-8 years later. For example, being just a little more active, such as ...

Alcohol's ability to increase people's pain threshold is one reason that drinking also leads to more aggressive behavior, a new study suggests. Researchers found that the less pain that study ...

In cancer-related pain, routine opioid use was not associated with clinically meaningful alterations in pain thresholds.

Urinary tract infections are painful, inconvenient and incredibly common. For decades, doctors haven’t had any leads on why, even after several rounds of antibiotics, UTI pain can linger. Now they do.

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