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It's a weird thing but a new study has found that partners of people in pain often sleep badly when their partners are in pain. It's not because their partners toss and turn trying to get comfortable. T he partners were most likely just reacting empathically to their loved one's pain (bet we're talking women, here). The ones in pain sleep fine. My husband has been haunted by knee problems for most of his adult life.  A competitive tennis player from way back, his knee was injured in a match and, against better advice, he had his meniscal tear operated on -- and it was never the same again.  I can't say that I don't sleep well when he's in pain, but I do worry about him and wish he could have more healing. The study found that t he effects the patients' pain had on spousal sleep "were not a result of their own disturbances in sleep," the researchers said,according to medicalnewstoday.com. In other words, you're lying wide awake wh...

If you're a woman hurt in a serious car accident, you'd be better off, well, being a man.  That's because a new study has found that women with severe injuries are less likely to be treated in a trauma unit , where they have a better chance of surviving. According to newswise.com, 98,000 men and women with serious injuries in Canada were followed -- and only 49% of the women were transferred to trauma centers while over 63% of the men were. At the same time, even when they remained at hospitals without trauma units, women less often received trauma care than men. Study authors weren't sure what to make of this, but it does follow the old scientific model of trying out research on treatments and drugs on men, not women (and also why more women die of heart attacks because their symptoms are not the same as men's).   On top of all that, more money is spent on research for men.  A study in 2000 alleged that women were less likely to volunteer for research tria...