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News from the European Pain Federation EFIC Chapters – September 2026
The European Pain Federation EFIC is pleased to share recent news and updates from our national chapters below. Strengthening collaboration with SIP The National Association of Pain Medicine of Armenia (NAPM Armenia) is pleased to report its successful and steadily...
Meet the #EFIC2027 Plenary Speakers: Five Video Interviews
With less than a year to go until Glasgow, we sat down with five of our #EFIC2027 plenary speakers to hear directly from them about the research behind their sessions. More interviews will follow soon. Kristian Petersen: The Quest for Pain Biomarkers in...
European Pain Awareness Day 2026: The Hidden Cost of Pain
Together to relieve Chronic Pain The first Global Day Against Pain was organised in 2004 by the International Association on the Study of Pain (IASP) and the European Federation of the IASP Chapters (EFIC). The World Health Organization (WHO) co-sponsored the...
World Patient Safety Day: 17 September 2026
World Patient Safety Day, observed every year on 17 September, is a global campaign led by the World Health Organisation (WHO) to raise awareness, mobilise action, and reduce avoidable harm in healthcare. This year’s theme, "Safe care for noncommunicable diseases",...
EFIC endorses three consensus-based data standardisation initiatives for pain research
Recognising, understanding, and addressing health inequities is fundamentally important to reducing the global burden of persistent pain, as is the consistent, comparable measurement of pain outcomes across studies. EFIC is pleased to announce its endorsement of three...