EFIC open letter to Stella Kyriakides, Health Commissioner-designate
Dear Mrs. Kyriakides, I am writing on behalf of the European Pain Federation EFIC® to congratulate you on your nomination as the next European Commissioner for Health and Food Safety. EFIC® represents close to 20,000 physicians, basic researchers, nurses,...
PATIENTS CAN REDUCE LEVELS OF PAIN SIMPLY BY UNDERSTANDING HOW IT
VALENCIA, 5 September 2019 – Patients can experience amazing reductions in pain simply by understanding how pain actually works and how their body and brain can be changed, delegates at the European Pain Federation’s biennial Congress in Valencia, Spain, will be told...
MULTI-MODAL PAIN TREATMENT FOR CANCER PAIN REDUCES POTENTIAL HARM OF LONG-TERM OPIOID USE
VALENCIA, 4 September 2019 – Multi-modal pain treatment for cancer patients, as well as continuous assessment and understanding the risk factors for opioid misuse, will reduce the potential harm of opioids in cancer care, delegates at the European Pain Federation’s...
Press release: unlocking the secrets of how genetic variation affects perception of pain could lead to personalised medicines
VALENCIA, 4 September 2019 – Gene studies reveal that about half of our sensitivity to pain is determined by our genetic makeup, with key differences caused by variant forms of individual genes, delegates at the European Pain Federation’s biennial Congress in...
