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Work from the Pain Genetics Lab has been written about in the following serious journalistic forums:






  • Maclean's:
    K. Engelhart. It's like a curse.  October, 2009.
  • 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.
  • Newsweek:
    C. Kalb. Taking a new look at pain. May, 2003.
  • Time:
    L. Williams. Canada>>The Next Generation. April, 2002.



  • Scientific American Mind
    I. Wickelgren. I do not feel your pain.  Sept./Oct., 2009.

    I. Wickelgren. The empathy effect.  Sept./Oct., 2009.
  • Scientific American Mind
    F.B.M. de Waal. Do animals feel empathy?  July 24, 2007.
  • Nature
    E. Marris. More pain studies needed.  March, 2009.
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    Mice show empathy.  July, 2006.
  • Annals of Internal Medicine:
    J. Wilson. The pain divide between men and women. March, 2006.
  • The Scientist:
    A. Gawrylewski. The trouble with animal models. July, 2007.
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    B. Roehr. Why sex matters in mouse models. July, 2007.
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    I. Ganguli. Mice show evidence of empathy. June, 2006.
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    S. Mirsky. Institutional gains on pain. March, 2005.
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    J. Salodof. Improving the lives of laboratory animals. April, 2004.

    J. Adams. Gains in pain research. December, 2003.

    N. Halim. Pain 2000. March 6, 2000.
  • Science:

    G. Miller. Signs of empathy seen in mice. June, 2006.
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    J. Marx. Prolonging the agony. July, 2004.
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    J. Marx. Why other people may not feel your pain. July, 2004.
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    C. Holden. Redhead's relief. April, 2003.
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  • The Lancet:
    J. Bradbury. Why do men and women feel and react to pain differently?  May, 2003.
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  • British Medical Journal:
    N. Hawkes. Painkillers "may need to be sex specific." February, 2000.
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  • J.A.M.A.:
    T. Hampton. A world of pain: scientists explore factors controlling pain perception. November, 2006.

    L. Lamberg. Venus orbits closer to pain than Mars, Rx for one sex may not benefit the other. July, 1998.
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  • New Scientist:
    B. Holmes. Grin and bear it. October, 1997.
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    R. Hollingham. In the realm of your senses. January, 2004.
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  • 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.



  • 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)

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





  • 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.



  • 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.