Talking With Helen Osborne at Health Literacy Out Loud Podcast
Attending TEDMED in Washington in April was a huge experience, or rather one long series of huge experiences. One of these was getting new friends sharing interests for innovation in healthcare. Helen...
View ArticleCancer Pain or Non-Cancer Pain – Does It Really Matter ?
Last week Mrs D came to the clinic complaining of pain in her right breast. One morning 20 months ago she discovered a tumour in the breast while showering. I saw her the same day, referred her to...
View ArticleOur New Study About Easy Screening for Co-existence of Pain and Depression
Both pain and depression are very frequent presented symptoms in primary care according a study we have just published. The study population was 715 persons visiting primary care, and the study...
View ArticleMerry Christmas and Happy New Year
MERRY CHRISTMAS AND HAPPY NEW YEAR Thanks to all Picture of Pain readers for your interest and support in 2012. We are are excited about the new year where we will launch a new tool, end some...
View ArticleLong Term Opioid Treatment: Help or Harm?
It is an everyday consideration in healthcare for both patients and clinicians: should opioid therapy be started and if, when should it be stopped again? Opioids (like hydromorphone, ocycondone,...
View ArticlePain is Underassessed According to Four Out of Five Physicians
Ranging between 26% in UK and 65% in Poland an average of ONLY 48% of Primary Care physicians are using pain assessment tools. At the same time 81% of the same physicians believe that chronic pain and...
View ArticleWhen Chronic Pain is Acute
Pain problems are the most frequent reason for visits to healthcare including Emergency Rooms (ER). You would probably guess these ER pain visits are due to acute pain problems, which of course they...
View ArticleUpdates on Pain -This Week’s Links – Week 50/2013
Knowledge and skills for undergraduate physicians about pain medicine as a way to mitigate opioid abuse Review written by authors form USA, UK, and Canada. Evaluating programs from University of...
View ArticleWhat IS Pain?
Dissecting and analyzing the official definition of pain BLOGPOST RELOCATED TO NEW PLACE, CLICK HERE
View ArticleWeekly Updates on Pain – 16/2014
***CLICK ON HEADLINES FOR SOURCE*** Chronic Migraine – Where are We? With a significant impact on quality of life is chronic migraine important to modify when possible. Chronic migraine is defined...
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