Theme: Pain

Information in the web

 

General information on pain

» Current Care Guidelines of the Finnish Medical Society Duodecim: www.kaypahoito.fi/web/english/summaries

» Pain management. A fundamental human right:
www.anesthesia-analgesia.com/content/105/1/205.full.pdf+html

» About pain, IWK Health Centre, Canada:
www.aboutkidshealth.ca/IWK/Pain/About-Pain.aspx?articleID=6740&categoryID=IWK_PN-nh1

Migraine:
» Migraine Action, a registered charity:
www.migraine.org.uk/index.php?sectionid=11

» Mediline Plus:
www.nlm.nih.gov/medlineplus/migraine.html
(Produced by the U.S. National Library of Medicine)

» MedicineNet, a healthcare media publishing company: www.medicinenet.com/migraine_headache/article.htm

» Health Media:
http://www.neurologychannel.com/migraine/index.shtml

Back pain:
» Mediline Plus:
www.nlm.nih.gov/medlineplus/backpain.html
(Produced by the U.S. National Library of Medicine)

» Patient Uk, a health information provider:
www.patient.co.uk/health/Back-Pain.htm

» Back Pain - A National Health Priority, Medical Journal Of Australia:
www.medicalnewstoday.com/articles/148582.php
www.emedicinehealth.com/back_pain/article_em.htm

Cancer:
» USA National Cancer Institute:
http://www.cancer.gov/

» American Cancer Society:
www.cancer.org/

» Scientific American on cancer:
www.scientificamerican.com/topic.cfm?id=cancer


Journals:

» List of medical journals:
en.wikipedia.org/wiki/List_of_medical_journals

» Genome-wide association study of migraine implicates a common susceptibility variant:
www.nature.com/ng/journal/vaop/ncurrent/abs/ng.652.html

» Oxford journal Annals of Oncology. Cancer and pain treatment:
annonc.oxfordjournals.org/cgi/bbtBrowse?category=3151306

» British Medical Journal, pain related studies:
www.bmj.com/search?fulltext=pain&submit=yes

» European Journal of Pain:
www.europeanjournalpain.com/

» The Clinical Journal of Pain: journals.lww.com/clinicalpain/pages/default.aspx

» Acta Neurologica Belgica:
www.actaneurologica.be/page.asp?lang=en&mod=home&page=index

» Acta Neurologica Scandinavica: onlinelibrary.wiley.com/journal/10.1111/%28ISSN%291600-0404
 

Organisations:

» WHO has developed a three-step "ladder" for cancer pain relief:
www.who.int/cancer/palliative/painladder/en/

» World Wide Congress on Pain:
www.pain.com/go/default/ 

» European Association for Palliative Care:
www.eapcnet.eu/

» The International Association for the Study of Pain (IASP):
www.iasp-pain.org//AM/Template.cfm?Section=Home

» The National Foundation for the Treatment of Pain:
www.paincare.org/

» American Academy of Pain Management:
www.aapainmanage.org/

» American Academy of Pain Medicine:
www.painmed.org/

» American Pain Foundation:
www.painfoundation.org/

» American Pain Society:
www.ampainsoc.org/

 

Ethics:

» Ethics, Law, and Pain Management as a Patient Right. Pain Physician 2009:
www.painphysicianjournal.com/2009/may/2009;12;499-506.pdf

» Ethics of pain management, IWK Health Centre, Canada:
www.aboutkidshealth.ca/IWK/Pain/Ethics-of-Pain-Management.aspx?articleID=7153&categoryID=IWK_PN-nh1-05c

» Managing Pain, Managing Ethics, Timothy W. Kirk, PhD:
www.medscape.com/viewarticle/557072

» Pain and Ethics, Jamil S. Anwari FFARCS:  www.ispub.com/journal/the_internet_journal_of_health/volume_7_number_1_5/article/pain_and_ethics.html
 

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