Study Reveals Gender Gap in Perception and Relief of Pain
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From Times staff and wire reports
UC San Francisco researchers have found that women and men perceive physical pain quite differently--and that a seldom-used painkiller helps women more than men. Dr. Jon Levine and co-workers gave two painkilling drugs intravenously to 48 young men and women who had their wisdom teeth pulled. Overall, a drug called nalbuphine, or Nubain, reduced pain twice as effectively in the women than in the men.
The researchers’ report is in the November issue of the journal Nature Medicine.
