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“Living and Dying in Pain; it doesn’t have to happen!” #hpmglobal #Hpm #pallonc #WHPCDay16
It is indeed an honor to be asked deliver this message for World Hospice and Palliative Care Day 2016. This year’s theme “Living and Dying in Pain; it doesn’t have to happen” really summarizes the 20 years of work of the Pain and Policy Studies Group. In fact David Joranson started this work almost 40 … Continue reading
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It is great that these recent 4 weeks have seen four meetings significant for Global Palliative care. These are the Asian Pacific Hospice and Palliative Care Network meeting, the European Association of Palliative Care Congress (#EAPC2015), the Public Health and Palliative Care Meeting (#PHPC15) and the World Health Assembly. It is an exciting time for Palliative Care but one could … Continue reading
Opioid Availability and Palliative Care in Nepal: Influence of an International Pain Policy Fellowship Recently published in the Journal of Pain and Symptom Management, this article details the achievements of 2008 International Pain Policy Fellow Dr. Bishnu Paudel in his efforts to improve opioid availability and palliative care in Nepal. (No sign-up or registration to access … Continue reading
It is with great pleasure that we share some recent successes of the Pain and Policy Studies Group’s International Pain Policy Fellowship (IPPF). The principal goal of the IPPF is to develop national leaders from low‐ and middle‐income countries (LMICs) and empower them with the necessary knowledge, skills and guidance to improve the availability and … Continue reading
Short Notes
- Source: MORPHINE PRODUCTION SCALED UP IN KENYA | Kenya Hospices and Palliative Care Association
- Source: Religions together for palliative care | EAPC Blog - Linkis.com
- Source: How SPPAN Went From Tracking A Few State Issues A Year, To Monitoring 1,900 – And Changing The Rules In Several States | Connectivity
- New guidelines have been published to help clinicians prescribe opioids safely and effectively, unfortunately they may not be realistic. Source: Are the CDC Guidelines on Opioid Prescribing Realistic?
- A great article from an excellent reporter with a personal experience in the area! Insightful!!! When a family member, spouse or other loved one develops an opioid addiction — whether to pain relievers like Vicodin or to heroin — few people know what to do. Faced with someone who a… Source: What Science Says To Do If Your Loved One Has An Opioid Addiction | FiveThirtyEight
- Ontario’s move to no longer fund high-dose drugs doesn’t address needs of patients who use them to ease suffering, physicians say Source: Palliative-care doctors decry Ontario’s new opioid policy - The Globe and Mail
- http://www.asco.org/sites/new-www.asco.org/files/content-files/advocacy-and-policy/documents/2016_ASCO%20Policy%20Statement%20on%20Opioid%20Therapy.pdf
- Source: News from The Associated Press
- A UW Carbone Cancer Center doctor published an editorial in the Lancet discussing the lack of access to opiods in the developing world. Source: News: Global Access to Medical Opioids for Severe Pain Still Lacking | UW Health | Madison, WI
- Pain Patients Say They Can’t Get Medicine After Crackdown On Illegal Rx Drug Trade | Kaiser Health News. Interested in your experiences of problems getting access to legitimately prescribed opioids!
- 'Chronic pain is basically plasticity gone wild': Dr Norman Doidge 18/05/2015. An interesting read and listen! #Hpm #hpmglobal @amworldtodaypm
- End Health Inequality. Health Inequality, palliative care and why it matters to me. by Claire Morris @boxerinbrighton #Hpm #hpmglobal
- Chronic #Pain Is Not a Normal Part of #Aging | John Whyte, M.D., MPH. A real and interesting @HuffingtonPost blog #hpm
- Opioids may not be the most harmful pain drugs after all.... a very interesting piece from Australia!
- Twitter Series » Duke General Internal Medicine.
- State of Pain special: Part 1 | Health - WESH Home. TV station looks at Florida's opioid availability issues #hpm
- Acute Pain Management: Scientific Evidence A 2010 review by @ANZCA and Faculty of #Pain Med. Available online: Currently being updated!
- ▶ Global Interventions at the End of Life - YouTube. From Our Colleagues at the University of Glasgow!
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