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Mayo Clinic Q and A:  Leg pain? It may be your arteries

DEAR MAYO CLINIC: I’m 52 years old and enjoy long walks with my husband and our dog. I recently started to experience pain in my left calf during our walks. The leg pain goes away when I rest. Because I have a history of high blood pressure, I went to see my primary care physician and […]

Business & Finance

Pain is coming for emerging markets from a Trump trade war

Unlock the Editor’s Digest for free Roula Khalaf, Editor of the FT, selects her favourite stories in this weekly newsletter. The writer is head of emerging markets cross-asset strategy at UBS American exceptionalism dominates markets, with equities outperforming the rest of the world by 20 per cent last year alone. Yet one indicator, close to […]

World News

My children Maddox and Pax saw my pain on set of Maria

Getty Images Angelina Jolie plays opera singer Maria Callas in a new biopic Angelina Jolie is notoriously private. But in a new interview with BBC News, the Hollywood star spoke candidly about her experience of working on set with her eldest sons, saying they saw “the pain” she usually hides from them. The actress is […]

Hourglass-shaped stent could ease severe chest pain from microvascular disease

ROCHESTER, Minn. — A study at Mayo Clinic suggests that an hourglass-shaped stent could improve blood flow and ease severe and reoccurring chest pain in people with microvascular disease. Of 30 participants in a phase 2 clinical trial, 76% saw improvement in their day-to-day life. For example, some participants who reported not being able to […]

Dancer reclaims her life after years of chronic pain

Abbie Langton started dancing at age 3. Although she’s trained across the spectrum of dance genres — including ballet, tap, hip hop and jazz — lyrical and contemporary are her favorites. Abbie’s passion for performing led her to receive a scholarship for competitive dance at a university in Connecticut. But during her sophomore year, debilitating […]

Feel a pop, then pain in your knee? It could be an ACL tear

Getty Images You’re playing tag with your kids, hitting a fast tennis return shot, landing after a gymnastics vault, evading a football tackle or jumping off a rock onto the beach. Suddenly, you feel a pop in your knee, then immediate pain followed by swelling. You may have just injured or torn your anterior cruciate […]