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As many as two billion people suffer from it — including me. Can science finally bring us relief? Credit...Marcus Schaefer for The New York Times Supported by By Jennifer Kahn Jennifer Kahn is a ...

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When Noa Fleischacker had her first pap smear, she was struck by an unbearable, knife-like pain as soon as the speculum went in. “I literally was going to jump off the table,” Fleischacker recalled.

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All politics is about pain. Governing is a matter of deciding who is hit and how hard. Sometimes this can be a virtue. “If it isn’t hurting, it isn’t working,” was the mantra of John Major, a former ...

One day a few years ago, as I stared at all the sophisticated machinery in my operating room — high-tech microscopes, image navigation tools and exquisitely designed instruments — I was struck by the ...