NEW YORK (Reuters Health) - Computers may be more than a proverbial pain in the neck; using them for extended periods may actually cause or aggravate neck pain, at least in teenage schoolkids. Among ...

Those who knock computer games as a waste of time might want to check out some new research released on Friday in The Lancet medical journal. As per a new study led by Max Ortiz Catalan of the ...

BOSTON (CBS) - Sitting in front of a computer all day can literally be a pain in the neck. Researchers at San Francisco State University found that computer work can cause neck strain and a variety of ...

A joint study by researchers at the University of California, San Diego and the University of Toronto has found that a computer system spots real or faked expressions of pain more accurately than ...

Computers have made our lives easier, but they can also make our health worse. Sitting at a computer for hours at a time inevitably leads to eye strain, headaches and a sore back. Most back pain that ...

Remember Baymax's pain scale in Big Hero 6? In the real world, machines might not even need to ask whether or not you're hurting -- they'll already know. UC San Diego researchers have developed a ...

If your lower back hurts, you're in good company. Back pain inflicts itself on almost everyone during their lives. But there are some unlucky folk who get injured, or have a degenerative disorder or ...

MIT scientists have developed an algorithm that can learn to recognize miniscule tics and expressions on the human face to quantify how much pain that person is experiencing, reports Matt Reynolds for ...