The findings indicate that differences in how men and women use and misuse opioids may be driven by their hormones, and that a deeper understanding of how sex hormones interact with chronic pain ...

For Dominick Dunlap's family, the risks of blood clots associated with feminizing hormone therapy appear to have led to ...

'It dates back to ancient Egypt, where the idea of the "wondering womb" was used to explain a whole host of illnesses in women,' explains Alderson. Since then, we've been brandished as hysterical – ...

The opioid epidemic has claimed more than half a million lives in the U.S. since 1999, about three-quarters of them men, according to the National Institutes of Health.

According to a new study by WashU Medicine researchers, male and female rats with a chronic pain condition release different amounts of dopamine when given fentanyl because of sex hormones.