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 | | Cancer pain is another condition that can be managed by a pain medicine doctor while the patient continues to receive treatment for various types of cancer. |  | | The anesthesiologist or other pain medicine doctors (such as neurologists, oncologists, orthopedists, physiatrists and psychiatrists) and nonphysician specialists (such as nurses, nurse practitioners, physician assistants, physical or rehabilitation therapists and psychologists) all work together to evaluate your condition. |  | | Some have pain medicine doctors on staff, and others may offer only nonmedical treatments such as acupuncture and massage therapy. |
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| | APS- The Use of Opioids for the Treatment of Chronic Pain |
 | | Consideration should be given to different treatment modalities, such as a formal pain rehabilitation program, the use of behavioral strategies, the use of noninvasive techniques, or the use of medications, depending upon the physical and psychosocial impairment related to the pain. |  | | The American Pain Society is the national chapter of the International Association for the Study of Pain and is composed of physicians, nurses, psychologists, scientists, and members of other disciplines who have an interest in the study and treatment of pain. |  | | The mission of the American Academy of Pain Medicine is to enhance pain medicine practice in this country by promoting a socioeconomic and political climate conducive to the effective and efficient practice of pain medicine and by ensuring quality medical care by physicians specializing in pain medicine, for patients in need of such services. |
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| | Sanford M. Silverman, MD, PA - Comprehensive Pain Medicine |
 | | Your pain is treated both medically and with the latest interventional and surgical means. |  | | Although some patients seek our services for short-term or acute pain, usually caused by an injury or surgery, most of our patients suffer from intractable chronic pain, which does not always have an easily identifiable cause. |  | | When pain interferes with the quality of your life, restricting activities and, perhaps, causing depression, you may wish to consider the services of the Comprehensive Pain Medicine. |
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| | Gale Encyclopedia of Medicine: Pain management |
 | | Nociceptive pain, or the pain that is transmitted by nociceptors, is typically called acute pain. |  | | The pain associated with cancer, persistent and degenerative conditions, and neuropathy, or nerve damage, is included in the chronic category. |  | | This kind of pain is associated with injury, headaches, disease, and many other conditions. |
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http://www.findarticles.com/p/articles/mi_g2601/is_0010/ai_2601001010
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| | TBJ- Cover Article |
 | | Pain should be assessed and treated promptly and the quantity and frequency of [medication] doses should be adjusted according to the intensity and duration of pain.” [13] This policy statement, in and of itself, establishes the foundation from which physicians and state licensing agencies can build a medical standard of care. |  | | [20] Additionally, criteria that should also be considered in defining standard of care boundaries include pain symptom management, patient satisfaction, shared decision-making among the patient, her family, and the treating physicians, coordination of pain care with other medical and social issues, and the guarantee of continuity of care throughout the chronic pain illness. |  | | Physicians should discuss pain issues with their patients and their patients’ family, expressly document the plan of treatment in the medical record, and follow well-established pain management guidelines. |
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| | Relieving Pain Without Medications |
 | | To relieve pain, the hypnotist may suggest that pain will be gone when the person “wakes up.” Some cancer patients have learned methods of self-hypnosis that they use to control pain. |  | | Stimulating the skin in areas away from the pain can be used to increase relaxation and may relieve pain. |  | | Depending upon where your pain is located, you may do it yourself or ask a family member or friend to give you a massage. |
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| | HSS - Pain Medicine |
 | | Pain is a complex physiological and emotional experience, which can dramatically affect an individual's life. |  | | Directed by an anesthesiologist with subspecialty training in pain management, the Division of Pain Medicine offers comprehensive evaluation and treatment to patients with acute and chronic pain syndromes, including pain from orthopedic and rheumatologic conditions. |  | | The Hospital for Special Surgery's Division of Pain Medicine is meeting the needs of patients struggling with this and other chronic pain due to musculoskeletal injuries or disorders. |
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 | | Another way of treating cancer pain is to inject pain medicine into the spinal cord (intrathecal) or into the space around the spinal cord (epidural). |  | | Whenever pain relief is needed, the patient presses a button on the pump that delivers a preset dose of pain medicine into the vein. |  | | Antidepressants such as Elavil, Tofranil, or Sinequan are used to treat the pain that results from surgery, radiation therapy, or chemotherapy. |
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| | Pain medicine - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia |
 | | Pain medicine is a branch of anaesthetics concerned with the treatment of acute and chronic pain. |  | | Modern pain medicine is individualised, holistic, and multidisciplinary, using a wide variety of drugs and physical and psychosocial interventions. |  | | This page was last modified 00:13, 23 March 2005. |
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| | UM Interventional Pain Medicine |
 | | The Center for Interventional Pain Medicine is one of the best qualified clinics of its kind dealing with pain, offering the newest procedures and the finest quality of care. |  | | Chronic pain is often defined as pain that persists for more than 3 months or that outlasts the usual healing process. |  | | Chronic pain affects all aspects of a person’s life including daily activities, family life, work, leisure time, sleep patterns, and mood. |
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| | Postgraduate Medicine: Overpowering pain |
 | | Priests and ministers argued that God intended birth to be painful, and the general public considered it immoral to reduce women to a state of unconsciousness at such a critical point in their lives. |  | | It was painful, but the emotional pain was as bad or worse. |  | | In fact, pain was, and still generally is, considered an essential part of the human experience. |
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| | Pain Relief Network :: Home |
 | | PRN was formed to correct these mistakes, to empower people in pain to demand that their political leaders sit up and take notice, and to enable pain management to move forward in America, just as any other area of medical practice is free to do. |  | | United States citizens of all ages are living and dying in pain, even children with cancer are dying in pain. |  | | Because patients in pain currently have no political standing and, hence, no voice in the community, prosecutors and law makers alike have thus far shown little concern for their welfare. |
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| | ASAM - American Society of Addiction Medicine Home Page |
 | | The LCPA is currently in the process of prioritizing research topics which the pain medicine and addiction medicine communities believe address questions of critical importance to the evolution of optimum pain treatment. |  | | The Liaison Committee on Pain and Addiction (LCPA) is working to develop definitions related to the use of medications for the treatment of pain that are consistent with current understanding of relevant neurobiology, pharmacology and appropriate clinical practice. |  | | The LCPA is currently examining options that would allow physicians in the pain treatment community and the addiction treatment community to more readily identify clinicians with skills, experience or interest in pain medicine and addiction medicine. |
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http://www.asam.org/pain/pain_and_addiction_medicine.htm
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| | Pain Medicine - Journal Information |
 | | Pain Medicine is a multi-disciplinary journal dedicated to the pain clinician, teacher and researcher. |  | | It is the official journal of the American Academy of Pain Medicine, the medical organization devoted to the advancement of pain management, education and research. |  | | of Pain Medicine, an organization devoted to the advancement of pain management, education and research, and also of the Faculty of Pain Medicine of the Australia New Zealand College of Anesthetists. |
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| | AllRefer Health - Acupuncture and Pain (Alternative Medicine - Pain Relief, Hypnosis and Pain, Pain Relief by ... |
 | | Some research has shown that acute pain is relieved by acupuncture in as many as 50 percent of back pain patients and as many as 70 percent of headache patients. |  | | How the process of pain relief is accomplished through acupuncture is not clear-cut, but there are many theories based on scientific principles. |  | | Scientific evidence is even more scarce about the effectiveness of hypnosis as a pain reliever. |
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| | Pain and Rehabilitation Medicine |
 | | Great strides are being made in understanding and treating complex pain, headache and neurological problems. |  | | Pain & Rehabilitation Medicine brings these advances to patients through an interdisciplinary team approach. |  | | Our program has highly experienced physicians and physical therapists, as well as licensed social workers, an acupuncturist and a psychologist. |
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| | Pain Management |
 | | Aggressive pain management is a specialized topic of medicine and can be researched in major health care directories. |  | | Pain management is one of the most important aspects of care for terminally-ill persons. |  | | But getting good pain management may be difficult due to poor physician training, concerns about drug addiction, and laws that can get in the way of needed pain medications. |
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| | Different Races Feel Pain Differently |
 | | The authors pull together research on racial and ethnic disparities in the perception, diagnosis and treatment of pain in locations ranging from the emergency department to the cancer clinic, and in conditions ranging from chronic pain to acute pain induced in laboratory experiments. |  | | Researchers and pain specialists who are also members of the American Pain Society publish their findings in the current issue of the journal Pain Medicine. |  | | In addition to these clinical pain studies, the authors describe the racial and ethnic differences in pain sensitivity and pain response that have been found in numerous experiments. |
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| | Gale Encyclopedia of Alternative Medicine: Knee pain |
 | | Degeneration of the bones associated with the knee causing pain and deformity. |  | | Also known as anterior knee pain syndrome, this condition is characterized by pain around the knee cap. |  | | The exact cause of patellofemoral pain is unknown but probably related to muscle inadequacy, lack of flexibility, rapid growth, or bone positioning. |
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http://www.findarticles.com/p/articles/mi_g2603/is_0004/ai_2603000475
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| | Florida Society of Anesthesiologists - Home |
 | | Anesthesiology is the practice of medicine dedicated to the relief of pain and the total care of the surgical patient before, during and after surgery. |  | | Fellowships may also be pursued in an anesthesia subspecialty such as pain medicine, critical care medicine, or anesthesia for obstetrics or cardiac surgery. |  | | After surgery, they maintain the patient in a comfortable state during their stay in the recovery area, and some anesthesiologists are involved in the practice of critical care medicine in the intensive care unit. |
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| | Texas Pain Society |
 | | The membership of over 200 pain practitioners are involved in acute and chronic pain management of patients in |  | | Texas Pain Society represents the practice of pain medicine in |  | | Texas Pain Society was established in 1989 in |
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| | Pain Management |
 | | The Washington Pain Medicine Center is a pain center run by physicians fellowship trained and certfied in the field of Pain Management/ Medicine committed to providing conservative, quality and state of the art treatment fot the sufferers of pain. |  | | Acute and Chronic Pain can afflict any person of any age or gender. |  | | Welcome to Ajrawat Washington Pain Medicine Center Web Site |
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| | Spine & Pain Medicine Center |
 | | Spine and Pain Medicine Center is dedicated to bringing our patients to the fullest possible level of function through a truly interdisciplinary team approach to medicine that is delivered in a compassionate manner with focus on patient care and quality outcomes. |  | | Spine and Pain Medicine Center offers a broad spectrum of medical services. |  | | We use diverse therapies ranging from biofeedback and therapeutic exercise to prescribing specialized medication sometimes with appropriate injections. |
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| | The Official Site of the American Academy of Pain Medicine |
 | | The practice of Pain Medicine is multi-disciplinary in approach, incorporating modalities from various specialties to ensure the comprehensive evaluation and treatment of the pain patient. |  | | San Diego, CA The American Academy of Pain Medicine (AAPM) is the medical specialty society representing physicians practicing in the field of Pain Medicine. |  | | As a medical specialty society, the Academy is involved in education, training, advocacy, and research in the specialty of Pain Medicine. |
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| | Iapsar Org: the International Agency for Pain Study and Research |
 | | The International Agency for Pain Study and Research (IAPSAR) is a windows that provides information and education on the more updated procedures and devices in the diagnosis and treatment of acute and chronic pain. |  | | The idea to create an agency dedicated to the pain study and research originates from the consideration of one of our founders who about 25 years ago devoted himself to the pain medicine. |  | | The International Agency for Pain Study and Research (IAPSAR) was founded in Italy in October 1999, as a no profit organization to promote and realize events leading to a more widespread knowledge in pain medicine. |
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| | MedicineHouse.com SOTA OMOIGUI'S LAW OF PAIN The origin of all pain is inflammation and the inflammatory response. |
 | | L.A. Pain Clinic is a pioneer and world leader in the treatment of inflammation and pain. |  | | It provides the most current information about the common painful syndromes, the right medications, useful herbs and various treatments that can be utilized in the home, clinic or hospital to successfully ease pain. |  | | Utilizing the very latest medical and clinical research, Sota Omoigui’s Law of Pain is the most significant breakthrough in the treatment of pain in this century. |
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| | UC Davis Anesthesiology and Pain Medicine |
 | | A brief history of the Department of Anesthesiology and Pain Medicine in the UC Davis School of Medicine. |  | | The Department of Anesthesiology and Pain Medicine is an integral part of the UC Davis Health System providing clinical, educational and research services to the communities of Northern California. |  | | UC Davis Department of Anesthesiology and Pain Medicine |
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| | ASIPP : : : American Society Of Interventional Pain Physicians |
 | | Interventional Pain Management is the discipline of medicine devoted to the diagnosis and treatment of pain related disorders principally with the application of interventional techniques in managing subacute, chronic, persistent, and intractable pain, independently or in conjunction with other modalities of treatment. |  | | It has redefined interventional pain management and pain medicine, working in our nation's capital and in all 50 states to provide safer and better patient care. |  | | ASIPP publications include the quarterly Pain Physician journal and Pain Physician News, as well as several books and manuals to help the pain physician's practice. |
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| | The Oxford Pain Internet Site |
 | | Chronic pain analgesics, back pain, cancer, musculoskeletal, headache and migraine, neuropathic, other interventions or conditions |  | | It is firmly based in the principles of evidence-based medicine and has pulled together systematic reviews with pain as an outcome. |  | | Pain - general stuff Analgesic League Table: relative effectiveness of analgesics in acute pain Pain - there's a lot of it about Effectiveness of acute postoperative pain management Acute and postoperative pain in children List of systematic reviews Postoperative fatigue Cox-2 roundup |
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| | The 7th International Conference on Pain & Chemical Dependency |
 | | Although knowledge of pain treatment is increasingly sophisticated, that knowledge is not effectively applied. |  | | The 7th International Conference on Pain and Chemical Dependency will educate physicians and AHPs on currently accepted approaches to managing pain and chemical dependency with applications for their clinical practice. |  | | Barriers to appropriate pain management exist at institutional, patient, family, legal, societal, physician, and allied health professional (AHP) levels. |
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| | American Pain Foundation |
 | | It provides information on important aspects of cancer pain management, including possible causes of pain, the importance of assessing and describing pain, use of medications, concerns patients have regarding addiction to opioids and complementary methods of pain management. |  | | HealthMark Multimedia, in partnership with the American Pain Foundation, is launching Cancer Pain: Your Guide to Relief™, an interactive CD-ROM to help cancer patients and caregivers understand and manage pain. |  | | The National Pain Foundation, American Academy of Pain Medicine and American Pain Foundation are very concerned about all of the victims of |
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| | Division of Pain Medicine, Mayo Clinic in Rochester, Minn. |
 | | The Division of Pain Medicine delivers a multidisciplinary, team-based approach to the prevention, evaluation, diagnosis, treatment, and rehabilitation of painful disorders. |  | | The consultant staff of the Pain Clinic includes experts from Anesthesiology and Pain Medicine, Physical Medicine and Rehabilitation (PMandR), Neurology, Orofacial Pain/Dental Specialties, and Psychiatry and Psychology. |  | | The Mayo Clinic Department of Anesthesiology Division of Pain Medicine leads a multidisciplinary Pain Clinic that focuses on relieving primary pain disorders and restoring a more functional and higher quality of life for patients. |
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| | The Mayday Fund |
 | | The Mayday Fund is dedicated to alleviating the incidence, degree and consequence of human physical pain. |  | | pain in the context of emergency medicine |  | | They were aware that excellent research had already led to a wealth of information about the treatment of pain, but that existing knowledge was not effectively used. |
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| | Recovery, biostructural medicine for pain relief - active component, Nutracol Nm |
 | | Biostructural Medicine RECOVERY was developed to assist in the relief of pain, degeneration and inflammation in conditions such as arthritis, gout, sports and work-related injuries and surgery and as well to speed the healing after surgery and injury by increasing ideal tissue formation and decreasing the zone of trauma and formation of excessive scar tissue. |  | | Biostructural Medicine RECOVERY is proposed to relieve pain, inflammation and may decrease joint breakdown (details on Arthritis). |  | | Nutracol NM (the Active ingredient in Biostructural Medicine RECOVERY), which is proposed to stabilize joint structures (cartilage, bone, tendons, bursae, synovium, ligaments, and blood vessels) and decreases joint breakdown, inflammation and pain (anti-catabolic/anti-inflammatory). |
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| | National Pain Foundation - Chronic Pain, Arthritis Pain, Back and Neck Pain, Headache Pain, Cancer Pain, CRPS Pain |
 | | Managing pain related to MS can be difficult and complicated by the disease process itself, but individuals living with MS and their doctors should be persistent in searching for the combination of treatments that will work for them. |  | | Your source for treatment options and pain information that is peer reviewed by leading pain specialists. |  | | Symptoms, including chronic and acute pain and inflammation, arise from damage to nerve fibers. |
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| | Back pain and neck pain patient information: Spine-health.com |
 | | Spinal cord stimulators are small devices implanted under a patient’s skin with the purpose of stopping pain signals from reaching the brain and thus alleviating chronic or neuropathic pain. |  | | Anterior cervical discectomy may be performed to alleviate pain and other symptoms due to spinal cord or nerve root pressure caused by a cervical disc herniation. |  | | Spine surgery should not be performed on patients where an anatomical lesion cannot be determined as the cause of pain. |
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| | Merck's Pain Is Medicine's Gain - Forbes.com |
 | | These critics derided the existence of what they call "me too" drugs, similar medicines that are in the same "class" because they are chemically similar and designed to treat the same conditions. |  | | This has more to do with the serendipity of the human body and its response to medicines that any shortcomings of our scientific process. |  | | Sometimes a drug's true benefits are discovered by deliberate studies, called follow-on trials that examine new uses for a medicine. |
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| | ASAM - American Society of Addiction Medicine Home Page |
 | | ASAM's Course on the State of the Art in Addiction Medicine provides an important link between cutting-edge scientific research and clinical practice. |  | | Establish addiction medicine as a specialty recognized by the American Board of Medical Specialties. |  | | ASAM State of the Art in Addiction Medicine |
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| | APS - Decade of Pain Control and Research |
 | | NIH funding for pain research in 2003 was just 1% of all NIH research funding that year |  | | APS - Decade of Pain Control and Research |  | | Improving Quality of Acute and Cancer Pain Management |
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| | HelpPreventUlcers.com |
 | | Is your pain medication putting you at risk for a stomach ulcer? |  | | The category includes both over-the-counter and prescription pain medicines. |  | | NEXIUM has a low occurrence of side effects, which may include headache, diarrhea, and abdominal pain. |
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| | PACIFIC PAIN MEDICINE CONSULTANTS - Our Physicians |
 | | After becoming board certified, she went on to specialize in orthopedic and spine surgery for several years before coming into pain medicine. |  | | We focus on effectively evaluating and treating painful disorders and returning patients to a productive, pain-free lifestyle. |  | | The program is designed to train community physicians about state of the art pain management treatments. |
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| | Pain Medicine, Continuing Medical Education |
 | | The Johns Hopkins University School of Medicine, Department of Anesthesiology and Critical Care Medicine, Division of Pain Medicine |
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| | Integrative Pain Medicine |
 | | Our integrative approach blends the best of modern and traditional medicine to help us treat our patients holistically—in mind, body, and spirit. |  | | Today's healthcare services must philosophically, practically, and comfortably integrate a variety of complementary and alternative therapeutic approaches with conventional medical care. |
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| | Ed's Chronic Pain Site,support and resource pages |
 | | There is hardly any pain or drug that I have NOT taken, along with most of the anti depressants and NSAIDS. |  | | I have 30 years experience in chronic back pain, rotor cuff, elbow surgery, knee, arthritis, emphysema, depression and countless broken bones do to Osteoporosis. |  | | I understand what you are dealing with because I have been through nearly 30 years of fighting Chronic Pain and the system. |
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| | Back Pain and Neck Pain for Spine Patients |
 | | The author offers insight into pain assessment, pharmacological issues, epidural treatment, and other clinical considerations. |  | | Back Pain and Neck Pain for Spine Patients |  | | Use our back pain guide to learn more about your diagnosis and treatment. |
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| | MedlinePlus: Pain |
 | | Introduction to Chronic Pain (Beth Israel Medical Center, Dept. of Pain Medicine and Palliative Care, Continuum Center for Health and Healing) |  | | Gene Therapy Relieves Neuropathic Pain in Rats (06/28/2005, National Institute of Neurological Disorders and Stroke) |  | | Pediatric Pain: Psychological Factors Related to Chronic Pain in Children and Adolescents (National Pain Foundation) |
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| | Withdrawal of competitor's pain medicine is mixed blessing for Pfizer |
 | | Todd Schlifstein, whose New York practice specializes in sports medicine and pain management, said he plans to keep prescribing the drugs because they are effective. |  | | Withdrawal of competitor's pain medicine is mixed blessing for Pfizer |  | | In addition, unlike Vioxx, neither Celebrex nor Bextra can claim on its label that is gentler on the stomach than older pain relievers called nonsteroidal anti-inflammatory drugs, such as naproxen, that are associated with gastrointestinal problems. |
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| | PaPaS Collaborative Review Group |
 | | The Cochrane Pain, Palliative and Supportive Care Group (PaPaS) focuses on reviews for the prevention and treatment of pain; the treatment of symptoms at the end of life; and supporting patients, carers and their families through the disease process. |  | | There are approximately 50 Cochrane ‘review groups’, each preparing systematic reviews for a specific area of healthcare. |  | | However, we work with researchers and health care professionals worldwide. |
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| | The Mayday Pain Project - Pain Information - The Mayday Fund |
 | | Pediatric Pain Education for Patients, Families & Nurses - From the University of Iowa College of Nursing. |  | | Novel Approach to Pain Reduction Could Treat Chronic Pain - A news story from CNN. |  | | UC Davis Health System - Division of Pain Medicine |
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