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Entries from Pain Research, Education, and Policy tagged with 'Pain'
Pain and Dementia
by Lisa Gualtieri, Ph.D., Adjunct Clinical Professor, Tufts University School of Medicine Having had a grandfather who had dementia, I was struck by Tara Parker-Pope's New York Times article, "Treating Dementia, but Overlooking Its Physical Toll" about the impact...
Pain Control...A Human Right
by Nancy Mitchell, MS-PREP/NESA student The non-profit organization, Human Rights Watch, is bringing attention to the lack of adequate pain care in many areas of the world. Human Rights Watch has recently published a 102-page report highlighting the current...
Does Pain Make You Age Faster?
by Pamela Katz Ressler, RN, BSN, HN-BC, MS-PREP student and PREP-AIRED blog moderator A recent study based on analysis of data from the 2004 Health and Retirement Study suggests pain hastens the aging process with respect to functional limitations...
Social Media -- How Can We Best Use It?
By Marcin Chwistek, MD, Attending Physician, Pain and Palliative Care Program, Supportive Oncology Care, Fox Chase Cancer Center, Philadelphia, PA I joined Twitter around the last elections, fascinated by social media’s power in inducing a societal change. The optimism and...
FDA Advisory Committee Recommends Restrictions on Acetaminophen
by Pamela Katz Ressler, RN, BSN, HN-BC, MS-PREP Student, and PREP-AIRED blog moderator On June 30, a Food and Drug Administration (FDA) advisory committee voted to recommend restrictions on both over the counter and prescription acetaminophen and acetaminophen combination products....
Low Back Pain and Complementary & Alternative Medicine
by Pamela Katz Ressler, RN, BSN, HN-BC, MS-PREP student and PREP-AIRED blog moderator The current issue of the NIH National Center for Complementary and Alternative Medicine's (NCCAM) newsletter focuses on low-back pain: research and care. Since 4 out of 5...
Tracking Pain With Twitter
by Lisa Neal Gualtieri, Ph.D., Adjunct Clinical Professor, Tufts University School of Medicine I teach Online Consumer Health and Web Strategies for Health Communication in the Health Communication Program . While this doesn't have to do with pain per se,...
PREP Milestone: TUSM-NESA Joint Program Graduates
by Richard Glickman-Simon, MD, Director, PREP Programs May 17, 2009 marked a major milestone in the history of PREP. The first graduates from the joint Pain Management Program between Tufts University School of Medicine (TUSM) and the New England...
No Need to Suffer in Silence
by Lisa Neal Gualtieri, PhD, Adjunct Clinical Professor, Tufts University School of Medicine With 74% of Americans online and 80-84% of online American using the Web for health information (Pew Internet and American Life and Harris Polls), many pain...
PREP-AIRED named Link of the Month
We are honored to be named "link of the month" by the Mayday Pain Project. The Mayday Pain Project was begun in 1994 with a grant from the Mayday Fund in New York as an international educational resource with a...
NESA Research Seminar Series
New England School of Acupuncture, located at 150 California St, Newton, MA, invites interested student, faculty, and community members to come to a lecture by Helene Langevin, MD, Associate Professor of Neurology, Orthopedics and Rehabilitation at the University of Vermont...
We Have a Winner: PREP-AIRED
by Pamela Ressler, RN, BSN, HN-BC, MS-PREP student and PREP blog moderator Thanks to all who participated in the Name Our Blog contest. The entries we received were exceptionally creative and clever, and made choosing a winner extremely difficult for...
Massachusetts Pain Initiative 2009 Spring Symposium
by Gretchen Kindstedt, MS-PREP student The MassPI Spring 2009 General Meeting, “Current Trends in Pain Management,” will be held on April 3, 2009 at the Best Western Royal Plaza, Marlborough, MA. There will be 6 CEU available for nurses, 0.65...
Is Pain a Disease or a Symptom?
by Ylisabyth (Libby) Bradshaw, D.O., M.S.,FACEP, Academic Director of the Pain Research, Education and Policy program at Tufts University School of Medicine Does it matter whether pain is a disease or a symptom? For people living and suffering with pain,...
PREP Gathering of Students, Alumni and Faculty
The PREP program's small classes and collaborative learning experiences lead to wonderful , long lasting connections between students, faculty and alumni. PREP students, faculty, staff and alumni joined together at a local Boston restaurant on February 13, 2009 to celebrate...
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