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Weighing the Evidence on Morphine

March 31, 2012

Scientific evidence can be misleading if it’s not put into the proper perspective. A recent classic example: The fear generated when some animal studies showed [...]
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Nigeria Improves Access to Pain Relief

March 7, 2012

We were very pleased to hear last week from Meg O’Brien, Ph.D., director of the Global Access to Pain Relief Initiative (GAPRI) of its collaboration [...]
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Shining a Light on Pain Relief

February 1, 2012

A young man with non-Hodgkin lymphoma went from being unable to get up and go to the toilet, to taking a “sprightly” walk. Others patients [...]
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MORPHINE: The Essential Medicine!

January 31, 2012

The celebrated 19th century physician Oliver Wendell Holmes included morphine (poppy) among the very few medicines which should be retained by the medical science of [...]
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Special Pallium Event in Silicon Valley

January 31, 2012

On Saturday, January 28, Pallium India-USA and the community of Silicon Valley, California were honored with a special guest. Pallium India chairman Dr. M.R. Rajagopal [...]
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A Motorcycle, MORPHINE and a Hospice

January 30, 2012

Stories of end-of-life are often poignant, occasionally dramatic, and sometimes humorous. This week, we spotted an article in the New York Times that encompassed all [...]
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Shattering Myths About Morphine

January 27, 2012

There are many misconceptions about opioids and their use in palliative care. A recent article in The Hindu about a palliative care unit in Bangalore goes a [...]
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Painful Inequities: Palliative Care in Developing Countries, a NEJM article

January 25, 2012

What kind of world do we we live in? Purely due to misapprehensions, ignorance and callousness, we force people into a living hell! Artur, a man [...]
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What is “Stock-Out Pain” ?

June 2, 2011

The English Language needs a new phrase. Or at least, when the International Association for Study of Pain ever appoints another taxonomy committee, it should [...]
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Thank you, Mr Excise Commissioner!

March 23, 2011

Mr Piyush Gupta, Secretary of Cancer Aid Society, has worked hard in Uttar Pradesh (U.P.) and neighboring states for palliative care advocacy. Most of the few [...]


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