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The ASHP Foundation is now accepting applications for the Oncology Patient Care Traineeship and the Pain and Palliative Care Traineeship.

From the APS Newsroom

Current newsroom releases from The Journal of Pain.

Listen to this Ted Talk by Latif Nasser on the man who gave us modern pain relief.

An international conference on Complex Regional Pain Syndrome (CRPS), August 31-September 1, 2015. The conference aims to provide a summary of current evidence aspects of CRPS with a special focus towards a personalized model of care for the individual patient.

From the APS Newsroom

Current newsroom releases from The Journal of Pain.

Join the Southern Pain Society as it presents Integrative Pain Care for the 21st Century, September 25-27, in Orlando, FL.

PICD invites pain education advocates interested in promoting the study of pain in an interprofessional context to attend a workshop on October 28-30.

NIH invites you to share your thoughts about the Precision Medicine Initiative (PMI) through the NIH Feedback Site. New topics for feedback will post approximately every three to four weeks through the end of August 2015.

Be sure to check out the latest article on Pain Research Forum about the debate that took place at the Basic Science Dinner Symposium at the APS Annual Meeting in Palm Springs.  What are your thoughts on the NIH requiring the use of both sexes in preclinical research?

JAAOS study reveals that painkiller overuse has led to negative outcomes for musculoskeletal conditions.

Help stop the unnecessary addition of new regulations for the use of animals in pain research.

From the APS Newsroom

Current newsroom releases regarding educational sessions at the 34th Annual Scientific Meeting in Palm Springs.

Cincinnati Children’s Hospital Medical Center now offers fellowship opportunities in pediatric pain medicine and research for international physicians. This program is aimed to build a worldwide network of leaders further advancing knowledge and care of pediatric patients with chronic pain.

The Institute of Medicine (IOM) recently released a new report, “Measuring the Impact of Interprofessional Education on Collaborative Practice and Patient Outcomes.”

Each year, the National Institutes of Health (NIH) invests more than $30 billion in medical research funding to a variety of research-related programs.

The American Physical Therapy Association (APTA) will host their 2015 NEXT Conference and Expo in National Harbor, MD, June 3-6.

The National Institutes of Health Pain Consortium will be held May 26-27 in Bethesda, MD.

The National Institutes of Health (NIH) has recently announced the formation of the Precision Medicine Initiative (PMI) Working Group of the Advisory Committee.

Acetaminophen (paracetamol, acetyl-para-aminophenol; APAP) was ineffective for low back pain and provided only clinically insignificant relief of hip or knee osteoarthritis (OA) pain while quadrupling the risk for liver function abnormalities, according to a systematic review and meta-analysis published March 31 by Australian researchers in the British Medical Journal.

Various studies on problematic opioid use in chronic pain patients have been conducted over the years, but many of them have failed to clearly define misuse, abuse and addiction. One group of researchers believe they’ve uncovered an updated review of this topic with definitions of their own.