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Clowns may help children cope with the pain and anxiety of hospital treatment
Incorporating appropriate laughter and play into clinical practice can be beneficial, say researchers Hospital clowns might help improve physical symptoms and psychological wellbeing in children and adolescents having treatment for
3-4 December 2021, Surgery and Anaesthesia; Tokyo
Conference Series invites participants from across the world to attend International Conference on Surgery and Anaesthesia to be held on December 3-4, 2021 in Tokyo, which includes keynote presentations, oral
AlzeCure presents positive preclinical efficacy data for the TrkA-NAM pain project
AlzeCure Pharma, a pharmaceutical company that develops a broad portfolio of drug candidates for diseases affecting the central nervous system, with projects in both Alzheimer’s disease and pain, recently announced
Soothing words and music during surgery might reduce postoperative pain
Results could provide a safe, feasible and inexpensive way to reduce postoperative pain and opioid use Listening to soothing words and music during surgery appears to reduce pain levels and
Kids’ TV teaching children wrong lessons about pain
Children engrossed in popular kids’ TV programmes such as Peppa Pig, or films like Toy Story or Frozen, are exposed to up to nine incidents of pain for every hour
Medical students taken on virtual ward visits
Students at Queen Mary University of London have been virtually transported into a surgical ward to follow their lecturer on his ward rounds. The third year medical students sat in
New mechanism of pain control revealed
Researchers in Japan have revealed a previously unknown mechanism for pain control involving a newly identified group of cells in the spinal cord, offering a potential target for enhancing the
