Post by News Desk on Jun 8, 2006 23:35:23 GMT -5
UPDATE and ADDITIONAL ACTION REQUEST
Congressional Briefing: THE EPIDEMIC OF PAIN IN AMERICA
THANK YOU to each and every one of you who responded to the Congressional Pain Briefing Alert! Over 980 of you have encouraged your Representatives to attend the briefing. BRAVO! If you weren't able to respond, it is not too late. Please do so now!
WE need your help to send a FAX (as opposed to the earlier strategy of email). It is critical to urge attendance at this briefing. TAKE ACTION NOW! It is quick and easy. The message will be sent as a FAX. Encourage others to TAKE ACTION! This hearing will be held in less than a week. Please join the ever-expanding community of people and organizations across America who are working together to improve pain care! IT IS UP TO US to let Congress know the tremendous human and healthcare cost of the undertreatment of pain!
TAKE ACTION NOW! Encourage your Congressional Representative to attend the Congressional Briefing: THE EPIDEMIC OF PAIN IN AMERICA on June 13, 2006. The purpose of this briefing is to educate congress on the serious need for federal policy reform affecting pain management. This provides an immediate action opportunity to spread the word and urge everyone concerned about pain care in America to FAX their representatives to encourage their attendance a this briefing! For more information, click here.
American Pain Foundation Website Rated as One of the Best!
In a quality assessment study done by researchers at Dartmouth Medical Center, and presented at the American Pain Society’s 25th Annual Scientific Meeting, 240 chronic pain websites were identified through popular search engines, evaluated and ranked. Criteria included quality of information, whether the sites met the standards of health information on the web, commercial gain, and readability.
The Authors state, “Chronic pain is a health care and social problem of epidemic proportions and a frequent cause of morbidity and economic burden in the United States. Patients with pain have a desire to learn about their condition, prognosis and treatment alternatives. The web can provide a potentially useful role in finding answers to a wide array of healthcare questions, including information about chronic pain. If the Internet is to be an effective tool for patients and healthcare providers there must be consistency, accuracy, reliability and credibility of the publisher.”
The American Pain Foundation is honored to be ranked among the top 3 websites, along with Aetna’s InteliHealth and the National Institute of Neurological Disorders and Strokes – a part of the National Institute of Health. Access to the full study will be available upon publication.
Quality Assessment of Chronic Pain Websites. Poster Presentation at the APS Annual Meeting, May 2006.
Tabitha Washington, Gilbert J. Fanciullo. Department of Anesthesiology, Dartmouth-Hitchthingy Medical Center, Lebanon, NH 03756. John C. Baird, Psychological Applications, 74 North Pinnacle Ridge Road, Waterbury, VT 05676; Department of Medicine, Dartmouth Medical School, Hanover, NH, 03755
Feeling gratitude and not expressing it is like wrapping a present and not giving it.
~ William Arthur Ward
Holidays remind us to express our appreciation of people we love, admire, or honor in memory. Mother’s Day, Memorial Day, Father’s Day… In the frenzy of our busy lives, we often forget to stop and thank or celebrate someone for the impact they may have had on our lives. Take a moment now and do this. Send an APF e-card, call someone up, or honor someone with a contribution to the American Pain Foundation. We’ll send a card to tell them of your thoughtful gift, and we will gladly include your personal message as well.
Secure online donations can be made by clicking here. Contributions to the American Pain Foundation are tax-deductible. Look here for many more ways that you can help us in our efforts to eliminate the undertreatment of pain and help someone you love.
Consider shopping for a gift at iGive.com, where you can designate the American Pain Foundation as your charity of choice to receive a percentage of what you spend.
CURE Magazine Features Members of APF’s Pain Community Advisory Council!
CURE: Cancer Updates‚ Research & Education is a quarterly magazine that combines the science and humanity of cancer for those who have to deal with it on a daily basis. Andrea Cooper and Susan Shinagawa, two members of APF’s Pain Community Advisory Council (PCAC) are featured in an article about cancer survivors who are battling chronic pain. Read about their journey and some new treatments.
APF Board Member Scott Fishman Interviewed on National Public Radio
Scott Fishman, MD, member of APF's Board of Directors, was interviewed by National Public Radio. Transcripts of the interview, information about treatments for back pain, interactive explanations and web resources are available on NPR's Q&A: Pain Management and the Back. Article and audio are also available.
APF Advocacy Survey Is Now Online
All individuals and members of other organizations can contribute in some way to APF’s ever-growing network of pain improvement activists. Through working together and uniting our collective voices to create a critical mass, we will be able to raise public awareness and influence pain policy, legislation and practice! Let us know how you would like to be part of our advocacy efforts. By completing the Advocacy Survey, your information will: provide valuable guidance for our efforts, let us know how you might like to be involved and assist in determining how to best target your advocacy interest and experience as it is needed on important issues. We welcome your participation and look forward to working with you!
Nuevo! Información Sobre Investigación Clínica Ahora Disponible en Español (APF Clinical Trials Center Information Now Available in Spanish)
Our online clinical trials resource center now provides background information about the clinical trials process and what to expect when you volunteer to participate in a clinical trial, in English and now in Spanish. ¡Haga clic aquí para leer esto en español!
100 Organizations Endorse the Consensus Statement in Support of H.R. 1020: The National Pain Care Policy Act of 2005!
Strong support has been received from the patient and professional pain management community, as well as related organizations that work with painful conditions such as cancer, musculoskeletal, neuropathic, headache/migraine and burn pain. This united voice for change reflects that it is no longer tolerable that 75 million American suffer pain and the majority do not receive appropriate care. This wide-ranging support is a clear indication of how pain cuts across race, age, gender and numerous medical conditions. The pain community and other stakeholders are demonstrating to elected officials their strength in numbers, and are providing the opportunity to make a difference in the lives of millions of their constituents. To view the Consensus Statement, click here.
www.painfoundation.org/
Congressional Briefing: THE EPIDEMIC OF PAIN IN AMERICA
THANK YOU to each and every one of you who responded to the Congressional Pain Briefing Alert! Over 980 of you have encouraged your Representatives to attend the briefing. BRAVO! If you weren't able to respond, it is not too late. Please do so now!
WE need your help to send a FAX (as opposed to the earlier strategy of email). It is critical to urge attendance at this briefing. TAKE ACTION NOW! It is quick and easy. The message will be sent as a FAX. Encourage others to TAKE ACTION! This hearing will be held in less than a week. Please join the ever-expanding community of people and organizations across America who are working together to improve pain care! IT IS UP TO US to let Congress know the tremendous human and healthcare cost of the undertreatment of pain!
TAKE ACTION NOW! Encourage your Congressional Representative to attend the Congressional Briefing: THE EPIDEMIC OF PAIN IN AMERICA on June 13, 2006. The purpose of this briefing is to educate congress on the serious need for federal policy reform affecting pain management. This provides an immediate action opportunity to spread the word and urge everyone concerned about pain care in America to FAX their representatives to encourage their attendance a this briefing! For more information, click here.
American Pain Foundation Website Rated as One of the Best!
In a quality assessment study done by researchers at Dartmouth Medical Center, and presented at the American Pain Society’s 25th Annual Scientific Meeting, 240 chronic pain websites were identified through popular search engines, evaluated and ranked. Criteria included quality of information, whether the sites met the standards of health information on the web, commercial gain, and readability.
The Authors state, “Chronic pain is a health care and social problem of epidemic proportions and a frequent cause of morbidity and economic burden in the United States. Patients with pain have a desire to learn about their condition, prognosis and treatment alternatives. The web can provide a potentially useful role in finding answers to a wide array of healthcare questions, including information about chronic pain. If the Internet is to be an effective tool for patients and healthcare providers there must be consistency, accuracy, reliability and credibility of the publisher.”
The American Pain Foundation is honored to be ranked among the top 3 websites, along with Aetna’s InteliHealth and the National Institute of Neurological Disorders and Strokes – a part of the National Institute of Health. Access to the full study will be available upon publication.
Quality Assessment of Chronic Pain Websites. Poster Presentation at the APS Annual Meeting, May 2006.
Tabitha Washington, Gilbert J. Fanciullo. Department of Anesthesiology, Dartmouth-Hitchthingy Medical Center, Lebanon, NH 03756. John C. Baird, Psychological Applications, 74 North Pinnacle Ridge Road, Waterbury, VT 05676; Department of Medicine, Dartmouth Medical School, Hanover, NH, 03755
Feeling gratitude and not expressing it is like wrapping a present and not giving it.
~ William Arthur Ward
Holidays remind us to express our appreciation of people we love, admire, or honor in memory. Mother’s Day, Memorial Day, Father’s Day… In the frenzy of our busy lives, we often forget to stop and thank or celebrate someone for the impact they may have had on our lives. Take a moment now and do this. Send an APF e-card, call someone up, or honor someone with a contribution to the American Pain Foundation. We’ll send a card to tell them of your thoughtful gift, and we will gladly include your personal message as well.
Secure online donations can be made by clicking here. Contributions to the American Pain Foundation are tax-deductible. Look here for many more ways that you can help us in our efforts to eliminate the undertreatment of pain and help someone you love.
Consider shopping for a gift at iGive.com, where you can designate the American Pain Foundation as your charity of choice to receive a percentage of what you spend.
CURE Magazine Features Members of APF’s Pain Community Advisory Council!
CURE: Cancer Updates‚ Research & Education is a quarterly magazine that combines the science and humanity of cancer for those who have to deal with it on a daily basis. Andrea Cooper and Susan Shinagawa, two members of APF’s Pain Community Advisory Council (PCAC) are featured in an article about cancer survivors who are battling chronic pain. Read about their journey and some new treatments.
APF Board Member Scott Fishman Interviewed on National Public Radio
Scott Fishman, MD, member of APF's Board of Directors, was interviewed by National Public Radio. Transcripts of the interview, information about treatments for back pain, interactive explanations and web resources are available on NPR's Q&A: Pain Management and the Back. Article and audio are also available.
APF Advocacy Survey Is Now Online
All individuals and members of other organizations can contribute in some way to APF’s ever-growing network of pain improvement activists. Through working together and uniting our collective voices to create a critical mass, we will be able to raise public awareness and influence pain policy, legislation and practice! Let us know how you would like to be part of our advocacy efforts. By completing the Advocacy Survey, your information will: provide valuable guidance for our efforts, let us know how you might like to be involved and assist in determining how to best target your advocacy interest and experience as it is needed on important issues. We welcome your participation and look forward to working with you!
Nuevo! Información Sobre Investigación Clínica Ahora Disponible en Español (APF Clinical Trials Center Information Now Available in Spanish)
Our online clinical trials resource center now provides background information about the clinical trials process and what to expect when you volunteer to participate in a clinical trial, in English and now in Spanish. ¡Haga clic aquí para leer esto en español!
100 Organizations Endorse the Consensus Statement in Support of H.R. 1020: The National Pain Care Policy Act of 2005!
Strong support has been received from the patient and professional pain management community, as well as related organizations that work with painful conditions such as cancer, musculoskeletal, neuropathic, headache/migraine and burn pain. This united voice for change reflects that it is no longer tolerable that 75 million American suffer pain and the majority do not receive appropriate care. This wide-ranging support is a clear indication of how pain cuts across race, age, gender and numerous medical conditions. The pain community and other stakeholders are demonstrating to elected officials their strength in numbers, and are providing the opportunity to make a difference in the lives of millions of their constituents. To view the Consensus Statement, click here.
www.painfoundation.org/