Send this Page
Print this Page
Contact
Work from the Pain Genetics Lab has been written about in the following serious journalistic forums:

 

Magazines


  • Slate
    D. Engber. The trouble with Black-6.  November, 2011.
    Click here to view
  • Sports Illustrated
    D. Epstein. The truth about pain: it's in your head.  August, 2011.
    Click here to view
  • Wired
    J. Walsh. Mice show pain on their faces just like humans.  May, 2010.
    Click here to view
  • Maclean's
    K. Engelhart. It's like a curse.  October, 2009.
    Click here to view
  • Harper's Magazine
    G. Critser. Of men and mice: how a twenty-gram rodent conquered the world of science.  December, 2007.
  • U.S. News & World Report
    K. Hobson. Hello, his and her healthcare. March, 2006.
  • The New York Times Magazine
    A. Sullivan. Stoic redheads (in "The Year in Ideas"). December, 2005.
  • The Economist
    L. Spinney. Sex and drugs. July, 2005.
    Click here to view
  • Newsweek
    C. Kalb. Taking a new look at pain. May, 2003.
    Click here to view
  • Time
    L. Williams. Canada>>The Next Generation. April, 2002.
  • Scientific American
    F. Jabr. Jailbreak rat: selfless rodents spring their pals and share their sweets. Dec., 2011.
    Click here to view
    B. Roehr. New report details uphill battle to solve the U.S.'s pain problem. July, 2011.
    Click here to view
    I. Wickelgren. Why people experience pain differently. Aug., 2009.
    Click here to view
    I. Wickelgren. The empathy effect. Sept./Oct., 2009.
    F.B.M. de Waal. Do animals feel empathy? July, 2007.
  • The Scientist
    A. Gawrylewski. The trouble with animal models. July, 2007.
    Click here to view
    B. Roehr. Why sex matters in mouse models. July, 2007.
    Click here to view
    I. Ganguli. Mice show evidence of empathy. June, 2006.
    Click here to view
    S. Mirsky. Institutional gains on pain. March, 2005.
    Click here to view
    J. Salodof. Improving the lives of laboratory animals. April, 2004.
    J. Adams. Gains in pain research. December, 2003.
    N. Halim. Pain 2000. March, 2000.
  • New Scientist
    K. McAlpine. Eye-squint-cheeck-bulge means 'ouch'. May, 2010.
    Click here to view
    H. Hoag. Brains apart: the real difference between the sexes. July, 2008.
    Click here to view
    B. Holmes. Grin and bear it. October, 1997.
    Click here to view
    Unknown. Even mice show empathy for each other. July, 2006.
    Click here to view
    R. Hollingham. In the realm of your senses. January, 2004.
    Click here to view

Journals


  • Nature
    M. Baker.  Animal models: Inside the minds of mice and men.  July, 2011.
    Click here to view
    M. Baker.  The author file: Jeffrey Mogil.  May, 2010.
    Click here to view
    J. Weaver. Mice pull pained expressions.  May, 2010.
    Click here to view
    E. Hayden. Sex bias blights drug studies.  March, 2010.
    Click here to view
    E. Marris. More pain studies needed.  March, 2009.
    Click here to view
  • Annals of Internal Medicine
    J. Wilson. The pain divide between men and women. March, 2006.
    Click here to view 
  • Science
    G. Miller. Signs of empathy seen in mice. June, 2006.
    Click here to view
    J. Marx. Prolonging the agony. July, 2004.
    Click here to view
    J. Marx. Why other people may not feel your pain. July, 2004.
    Click here to view
    C. Holden. Redhead's relief. April, 2003.
    Click here to view
  • The Lancet
    J. Bradbury. Why do men and women feel and react to pain differently?  May, 2003.
    Click here to view
  • British Medical Journal
    N. Hawkes. Painkillers "may need to be sex specific." February, 2000.
    Click here to view
  • J.A.M.A.
    T. Hampton. A world of pain: scientists explore factors controlling pain perception. November, 2006.
    Click here to view
    L. Lamberg. Venus orbits closer to pain than Mars, Rx for one sex may not benefit the other. July, 1998.
    Click here to view
  • Journal of NIH Research
    K. Hopkin. Pain in the mouse: searching for pain's genetic roots. October, 1997.
    N. Touchette. Estrogen signals a novel route to pain relief. April, 1993.
  • Nature Medicine
    E. Dolgin. Animalgesic effects.  November, 2010.
    Click here to view

News Services


  • CanWest News Service (May 9, 2010)
  • UPI (July 5, 2006)
  • CanWest News Service (June 29, 2006)
  • CanWest News Service (August 11, 2005)
  • UPI (March 25, 2003)
  • Reuters (March, 24, 2003)
  • UPI (February 20, 2000)
  • Reuters (February 20, 2000)
  • Reuters (August 27, 1999)

Newspapers

Work from the Pain Genetics Lab has been referred to numerous times in dozens
of newspapers across the world.

Click here to view an article in The New York Times


 

Radio


  • NPR, December 9, 2011 ("Morning Edition")
  • Radio New Zealand, May 1, 2010 ("Saturday Morning")
  • CBC, April 30, 2008 ("Sounds Like Canada")
  • CBC, December 1, 2007 ("Quirks and Quarks")
  • CBC, July 21, 2006 ("All in a Weekend")
  • NPR, July 5, 2006 ("Morning Edition")
  • CBC, June 29, 2006 ("As It Happens")
  • BBC, 1999, 2005. 
  • National Radio Ireland, 2005.
  • Radio New Zealand, 2005.
  • CBC, 2003.
  • WBBR, Chicago, 1999.

Television


  • National Geographic's "Mad Labs", November, 2006
  • CFCF (Montreal), August 12th, 2005.
  • Canada AM, August 12th, 2005.
  • CTV Nightly News, August 11th, 2005.
  • Good Morning America (ABC News), August 11th, 2005.
  • Daily Planet, Discovery Channel Canada, 2002.

Books