pain

Things got a little scary for Sydney Sweeney during the filming of Immaculate. In a new interview with Indiewire, Immaculate director Michael Mohan revealed that during the shoot of the film's gory final scene, Sydney got fake blood in one of her eyes, but continued to shoot to get the perfect shot. (Also read: Sydney Sweeney says she was attached to do Immaculate even before Euphoria fans wanted her to do a horror film) Sydney Sweeney at the premiere of Immaculate. (AP) When Sydney was injured on setIn the…

Today, the F-word is routinely used to describe how we feel, how objectionable someone is, what a bad day it is, or simply to wish someone a Happy AF Birthday. We may all frown upon swearing and profanity, but scientist Emma Byrne believes that we wouldn’t have “made it as the world’s most populous primate if we hadn’t learned to swear”. Scientist and author Emma Byrne (Courtesy the subject) The author of Swearing is Good for You: The Amazing Science of Bad Language, Byrne did her PhD in Expectation Violation…

It was one thing writing about the abuses of his childhood, Charles Spencer tells me, with half an ironic laugh; it’s quite another talking about them with strangers. When we meet in an office at his publisher, he is reeling a bit from this new fact of his life. The more sensational chapters of his memoir of a deeply traumatic five years at the Northamptonshire prep school Maidwell Hall had been splashed all over the previous week’s Mail on Sunday. The following morning, he had been a guest on Lorraine Kelly’s mid-morning…

Researchers at Duke Health have discovered that persistent pain in recurrent urinary tract infections (UTIs) is caused by an overgrowth of nerve cells in the bladder, suggesting a new treatment approach that targets this overgrowth to alleviate symptoms.A study reveals that overgrowth of nerve cells in the bladder is the cause of persistent pain in recurrent UTIs, pointing to new, more effective treatment methods.A perplexing problem for people with recurring urinary tract infections (UTIs) is persistent pain, even after…

Chronic UTI Pain Could Be Caused by Overgrown NervesUrinary tract infection symptoms can resurface long after bacteria are gone. A new study suggests nerve growth is to blameBy Joanna ThompsonA colored scanning electron micrograph (SEM) of Escherichia coli bacteria on bladder epithelial cells found in a urine sample from a person with a urinary tract infection (UTI). Credit: Steve Gschmeissner/Science SourceUrinary tract infections (UTIs) are among the world’s most common bacterial maladies. Approximately 12 percent of…

Is there a gap between our private desires and the ones we are brave enough to share? Not for Arnold Schwarzenegger. In the 1977 documentary Pumping Iron, a young Arnie equated weightlifting with ejaculating. “It’s as satisfying to me as coming,” he declares with a grin.Schwarzenegger and fellow shredded action star Dolph Lundgren are central to actor, playwright and poet Rosy Carrick’s latest show, Musclebound. She was captivated by them as an adolescent and, a while ago, revisited Masters of the Universe, starring…

I really thought Richard Lewis had 10 more years left to live. Even after four back surgeries and a Parkinson’s diagnosis, my friend and fellow comedian of 51 years was still so vibrant and full of life I never expected Wednesday’s news “from hell.” How many comedians actually impact the lexicon and become part of people’s everyday language? Richard, credited with coining “from hell” in the Yale Book of Quotations also brought “quite frankly” into everyday (over)use as a placeholder at the end of sentences, which shows…

As Jon Bernthal’s face pings on to the screen from his California home, I’m peering in to his giant living room, looking for his three pit bull terriers. While he was, for a long time, mainly thought of as the square-jawed beefcake Shane Walsh in The Walking Dead (2010 to 2012, then again in 2018 and 2022), and later as the iron-pecced Punisher in two eponymous series and various episodes of Daredevil, the 47-year-old has become more associated with social conscience, on screen and off.He has a podcast, Real Ones, where…

February might be the shortest month, but it certainly didn’t feel this way here at TDS, where our authors have been on top of their game, sharing strong contributions on timely topics — including some of the longest and most-read articles of the year so far.Now that most of us have settled into the flow of things in 2024, we see our readers focus slightly less on career moves and more on core skills and concrete solutions to common issues. Our most-read and -discussed articles of the past month reflect that, and below…

Treating pain in the brain isn't easy – what with it being essential for everything we think and do – but a newly developed, non-invasive method of using ultrasound is showing particular promise, as outlined in a published study.Researchers from the Virginia Tech Carilion School of Medicine used tightly focused beams of ultrasound, aimed at one particular part of the brain, to reduce the perception of pain and some of its related effects (such as heart rate changes).While this approach is still in the early stages, the…