When storms roll in, many people with chronic pain feel the effects long before the first raindrop falls. One advocate reflects on weather-related pain flares and the challenges of living with a disability.
What happens when we step beyond the boundaries chronic pain seems to create? Michele Rice shares how community, purpose, and peer support changed her perspective.
As a leading expert on various pain conditions, U.S. Pain Foundation recently relaunched its initiative, Learn about your Pain, to provide complete and timely information on hundreds of pain disorders. Learn about your Pain is a comprehensive...
Nonmedical switching advocacy had some major developments in April, as many state legislative sessions began to wrap up. Nonmedical switching occurs when insurers force patients off medications for financial reasons instead of medical ones. U.S....
U.S. Pain submitted letters on three key federal topic this month: a proposed measure for tracking opioid abuse across health plans; the reauthorization of an act on the drug evaluation process; and whether manufacturers should be allowed to...
On April 5, U.S. Pain Foundation’s Senior State Advocate, Wendy Foster, flew to D.C. for the joint meeting of the Anesthetics and Analgesic Drug Products Advisory Committee and Drug Safety and Risk Management at the Food and Drug Administration...
U.S. Pain urges its members to participate in livestreams of two major events about pain policy at the federal level happening this May. The first is a meeting at the U.S. Department of Health and Human Services entitled, “Implementation of the...
