Resources

For the Clinician

Clinical and Research Information Online

International Association for the Study of Pain Pain: Clinical Updates

http://www.iasp-pain.org/PCUOpen.html
Quarterly clinical newsletter. More than 30 topics are available, including Culture and pain, causes of cancer pain, analgesic tolerance to opioids, Cox-2 selective inhibitors and analgesia, chronic pain prevalence, pain control at the end of life, ethnicity and pain, spinal cord injury pain, imaging pain, and more.

Technical Corners

http://www.iasp-pain.org/TCOpen.html
Technical Corner, IASP Newsletter (1996-2000)
Pain genetics, mechanisms of cannabinoid-induced analgesia, long term consequences of pain in infancy, pain following spinal cord injury and other topics.

Pain (for the health professional)

http://www.cancer.gov/cancerinfo/pdq/supportivecare/pain/HealthProfessional

Substance Abuse Issues In Cancer (for the health professional)

http://www.cancer.gov/cancerinfo/pdq/supportivecare/substanceabuse/healthprofessional

Depression (for the health professional)

http://www.cancer.gov/cancerinfo/pdq/supportivecare/depression/HealthProfessional

Implantable Device May Offer Better Pain Management

http://www.cancer.gov/clinicaltrials/results/implantable-drug-delivery1002

Fatigue

http://www.cancer.gov/cancerinfo/pdq/supportivecare/fatigue/HealthProfessional

Society for Neuroscience

Brain Briefings: A series of two-page newsletters explaining how basic neuroscience discoveries lead to clinical applications

Neuropathic Pain (June 1999)
http://www.sfn.org/index.cfm?pagename=brainBriefings_neuropathic

Nociceptors and Pain (Winter 1995)
http://www.sfn.org/index.cfm?pagename=brainBriefings_ nociceptorsAndPain

Migraines and Serotonin Receptors (February 1998)
http://apu.sfn.org/index.cfm?pagename=brainBriefings_ migrainesAndSerotonin

The Opiate Receptor (1994)
http://apu.sfn.org/index.cfm?pagename=brainBriefings_ theOpiateReceptor

Cannabinoids and Pain (1999)
http://www.sfn.org/index.cfm?pagename=brainBriefings_ cannabinoidsAndPain

Killing Cells to Kill Pain (2000)
http://www.sfn.org/index.cfm?pagename=brainBriefings_ killingCellsToKillPain

"Treating Opiate Addiction"
http://apu.sfn.org/index.cfm?pagename=brainBriefings_opiateAddiction

New Targets for Pain Relief (2004)
http://www.sfn.org/index.cfm?pagename=brainBriefings_painRelief

Bulletin on the Rheumatic Diseases (For Evidence-Based Management of Rheumatic Diseases) Vol 52, No 5: A Stepwise Approach to the Management of Osteoarthritis

www.arthritis.org/research/bulletin/vol52no5/printable.htm

For the Clinician Index