Malcom Hogg writes: The use of opioids remains essential to the care of people experiencing acute pain and remains a major component of anaesthesia and post-surgical care. Collectively and i... Read more
A new interactive directory, available now via the Painaustralia website, will help people with chronic pain to find quality services in their area, but it will take a system-wide refocus to... Read more
The complexities of chronic pelvic pain were discussed in-depth at the recent Royal Australian and New Zealand College of Obstetricians and Gynaecologists (RANZCOG) annual scientific meeting... Read more
Introduction by Croakey: Evidence-based medicine is one of the central tenets of modern healthcare, but when it comes to managing chronic pain, homogenising one-size-fits approaches may be t... Read more
Claire Maskell of Palliative Care Australia recently wrote for Croakey about inequities in global access to palliative care and pain management. The article was a preview to the recent scree... Read more
Further to the previous post describing efforts to improve pain management, Geri Badham, a Canberra-based freelance journalist/researcher, writes below of her experiences with chronic pain.... Read more
This is the first of two posts related to pain management. In the article below, Lesley Brydon, who originally trained as a pharmacist, lives with chronic pain herself, and is now Chief Exec... Read more
Jonty Este is a 48-year-old journalist living in Sydney. He was born in the UK and has been in Australia since 1988, spending most of that time as a writer and editor with The Australian new... Read more
Some patients now have affordable access to a treatment for neuropathic pain, but others do not. These inconsistencies are unfair and have created an ethical dilemma for doctors, reports Dr... Read more
The latest national figures show the Australian health system is paying a high price for the ever-increasing rate of caesarean sections. In 2006, 30.8% of births were by caesarean section, c... Read more
