Explaining Pain, Ovarian Cancer, Starvation, and More

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In Tonic, Dr. Norman Swan leads a team of reporters who cover all aspects of health, from lifestyle to complementary medicines to the most recent medical discoveries. Topics covered in this episode include: *The Pain of Explaining Pain: We all will experience some kind of pain at some point in life. Sometimes it will be mild and sometimes severe-and in order to get the right treatment for the type of pain you have, you need to be able to communicate to your doctor exactly what type and what level of pain it is. Karen Carey finds out how best to explain the pain. *Ovarian Cancer: Ovarian cancer is one of the deadliest forms of cancers there is, and one of the deadliest forms of it is called high-grade serous ovarian carcinoma. Researchers at the University of British Columbia in Vancouver have embarked on an enormous program that could reduce the incidence of ovarian cancer by 50 percent. Dr. Norman Swan reports. *Buteyko-What Is It? Buteyko technique is a breathing exercise.