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Life; interrupted: What it feels like to have chemotherapy

September 2, 2012

Look up the “side effects of chemotherapy” on the web and you are likely to find anywhere between 15 to 30 of them listed – [...]
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WHO Calls for Targeted Research on the Pharmacological Treatment of Persisting Pain in Children with Medical Illnesses

August 9, 2011

It is gratifying to note, from the latest World Health Organization’s Access and Control newsletter, that persistent pain in children is receiving international attention. One of the most painful [...]
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Pain Relief as a Human Right?

January 30, 2011

Should it not be? This was one of the major points discussed during a meeting organized by the International Federation of Health and Human Rights [...]
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Medicated into Poverty

December 6, 2010

We have, on this blog, talked about the high costs of modern medical treatment and its impact on society. The 2009 edition of the Oxford [...]
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Mind-Body Medicine

October 10, 2010

Mrs. X was in tears. Her husband has gone through three cancers: a non-Hogdkin’s lymphoma, then a Hodgkins lymphoma and finally a malignant melanoma. She [...]