‘Reporte Semanal’ talks about fibromyalgia, chronic fatigue syndrome or multiple chemical sensitivity syndrome. One and a half million people live with pain, affected by numerous ailments and they are mainly suffered by women. It is another of those diseases with a thousand faces that, in some cases, takes years to diagnose. Doctor Antonio Collado, who …

Science and medicine have a long and troubling history of reinforcing racist, anti-ethnic, and sexist attitudes and beliefs. Pain science is no exception. Misconceptions about pain sensitivity propounded by physicians and scientists during the 19th and 20th centuries reified existing social hierarchies, continuing to this day. Pain care remains heavily influenced by prejudices and misconceptions …

The Spanish Society of Neurology (SEN) has just published the book “Neurology and Women” with the aim of trying to improve the management of neurological diseases in women. This book, which is an update on the management of the most prevalent neurological pathologies, analyses in detail all the particularities that each of them has in …