
Nov 12 - By Brian Alexander, msnbc.com - Only on msnbc.com
Her boyfriend wants her to dress sexier — to attract dudes. What's up with that? Also, what could be causing painful cramps during orgasm? Sexploration answers your most intimate queries. Got a question? . We'll post answers to select questions.

Oct 1 - By Andy Miller, msnbc.com - Only on msnbc.com
The number of deaths involving methadone has jumped nearly sevenfold from 1999 to 2006 — more than from any other opioid analgesic, a new federal report says.
Sep 17 - By Adam Schreck, AP Business Writer
In dusty and sweltering Industrial Area 13, just beyond the glow of Dubai's illuminated skyscrapers, Abdullah Kuttakunnil serves patrons of Kannur Restaurant by candlelight.
Sep 2 - By Michael Marot, AP Sports Writer
IndyCar driver Will Power looks at 2009 as a success.
Aug 17 - By Marilynn Marchione, AP Medical Writer
Kids with a broken arm do better on a simple over-the-counter painkiller than on a more powerful prescription combination that includes a narcotic, a surprising study finds.

Aug 12 - By Linda Carroll, msnbc.com - Only on msnbc.com
Everyone feels pain differently, but doctors have had a difficult time measuring the intensity of physical suffering. A new computer program rates how much pain you're in.

Jul 13 - By Linda Carroll, msnbc.com - Only on msnbc.com
Peggy Loper doesn’t know why, but she’s sure that the rapid hissed repetition of her favorite expletive somehow dulls the pain when she’s hammered her thumb rather than the nail she’d aimed for.

Jun 27 - By Jake Coyle, AP Entertainment Writer
It was the last day of shooting for a Pepsi commercial at the Shrine Auditorium in Los Angeles in 1984, and the only hiccup had been an argument between Michael Jackson and an ad executive over whether the young superstar would take off his sunglasses.

Mar 30 - By Mike Celizic, msnbc.com - Only on msnbc.com
Tiger Woods has always played like a man possessed because that’s what he is. But from the way he celebrated when he won Bay Hill Sunday, you get the feeling that the post-surgery Tiger is even more driven than the pre-surgery version.
Mar 2 - By David Kohn, msnbc.com - Only on msnbc.com
Being in the grip of a migraine feels like a hammer is pounding away inside your eyeball. The world becomes almost threatening: The lowest light feels like a strobe; the gentlest sound is as grating as a jackhammer. When you’re in the throes of an attack, all you want is to lie down alone in a dark room and suffer in silence.

Nov 13 - By Adam Schreck, AP Business Writer
This Arab Gulf boomtown — so business-friendly it's been called "Dubai Inc." — is suddenly getting a nasty taste of the global financial crisis.

Oct 30 - By Ali Akbar Dareini, Associated Press Writer
Three weeks ago, a hard-line cleric close to Iran's president gloated publicly that the world financial crisis was God's punishment on the United States. The laughter, however, was short-lived.
Oct 16 - By Linda A. Johnson, AP Business Writer
A Johnson & Johnson company is recalling an advanced pain patch system for post-surgery hospital patients after some units of the needleless system were found to possibly be able to activate themselves, posing a potential risk of narcotic overdose.

Mar 16 - By Carla K. Johnson, AP Medical Writer
Ballet teacher Gayle Parseghian thought she might never dance again after a back injury while moving heavy furniture left her with unrelenting pain. But an intensive, four-week "boot camp" got the 55-year-old dancer from Toledo, Ohio, back to the barre.

Mar 3 - By Jeannine Aversa, AP Economics Writer
The price of oil gushed to a record high Monday, spreading dangerously to factories, groceries, gas stations and every citizen's pocketbook.
Jan 13 - By David Bauder, AP Television Writer
The video of a disheveled, unshaven Glenn Beck talking about a hemorrhoid operation gone wrong feels like one of those late-night, partying-with-your-friends pictures posted — to your eternal regret — on Facebook the next day.

Nov 2 - By Associated Press
Rapper T-Pain turned himself in Friday after being wanted on an outstanding warrant for driving with a suspended license, police said.

Oct 29 - By Lauran Neergaard, AP Medical Writer
Devil's Revenge. Spontaneous Combustion. Hot sauces have names like that for a reason. Now scientists are testing if the stuff that makes the sauces so savage can tame the pain of surgery.

Sep 24 - By Carla K. Johnson, AP Medical Writer
Fake acupuncture works nearly as well as the real thing for low back pain, and either kind performs much better than usual care, German researchers have found. Almost half the patients treated with acupuncture needles felt relief that lasted months. In contrast, only about a quarter of the patients receiving medications and other Western medical treatments felt better.

Aug 20 - By Frank Bass, Associated Press Writers
People in the United States are living in a world of pain and they are popping pills at an alarming rate to cope with it.

Mar 27 - By Meg Kinnard , Associated Press Writer
A yellow haze of pollen descended on the Southeast in the past week, coating cars and porch furniture and making people miserable in one of the worst allergy seasons in years. Doctors are telling people with stuffed-up noses and itchy, watery eyes to spend more time indoors if they can.

Feb 19 - By Omar Sinan, Associated Press Writer
These are bitter times in the town that Saddam Hussein gassed. It's painful enough that many people still suffer the aftereffects of nerve and mustard gas nearly 20 years ago. It's even worse, some lament, to feel largely forgotten and cheated of what they call a rightful revenge. On Dec. 30 the people of the Kurdish Iraqi town of Halabja saw Saddam hanged for crimes against Shiites, but not for crimes against Kurds.
Nov 13 - By Andy Coghlan-102188, New Scientist Writer
Saliva from humans has yielded a natural painkiller up to six times more powerful than morphine, researchers say.

Oct 17 - By Carla K. Johnson, AP Medical Writer
The teenager said the stabbing pains in her face felt like electrical shocks that lasted 10 to 30 seconds and struck 20 to 30 times a day. Her doctors diagnosed trigeminal neuralgia, a nerve disorder sometimes called "suicide disease" because of the excruciating and dispiriting pain it causes.