Study Reveals Gender Gap in Perception and Relief of Pain
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.
