"Pain is a mysterious thing," says neurosurgeon Dr. Sanjay Gupta. But understanding how it works in the body and different ...

Emily had a bad feeling about her Caesarian section before it started. The epidural had numbed her legs, but she could sense the catheter in her bladder, which seemed wrong to her as a labor and ...

Why do we feel each other's pain? The ability to suffer not only our own pain -- which anything with a rudimentary nervous system can do -- but also the pain of others, has long been considered the ...

CNN Chief Medical Correspondent Sanjay Gupta vividly remembers the day he impaled himself on a wrought iron fence. He had just turned 12, and he was running through the neighborhood when he ...

From warehouse workers to lawyers, people in a recent study described a surprisingly similar pressure to perform despite ...