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Pain Specialists Call For Wider Shingles Vaccination Funding To Prevent Chronic Pain

Wednesday, 7 October 2026, 6:30 am | Faculty of Pain Medicine

The current shingles vaccine is more than 90 per cent effective at preventing shingles and post-herpetic neuralgia, including in older people. More >>

Implantable medical devices – the way of the future?

Monday, 29 April 2019, 9:20 am | Faculty of Pain Medicine

Medicine is moving away from drugs to implantable medical devices to treat chronic diseases, an international meeting of specialist pain medicine physicians has heard. Pain specialist Dr Nick Christelis, from Victoria, Australia, has told a pain medicine ... More >>

Chronic pain treatments and spinal cord stimulation

Saturday, 27 April 2019, 4:27 pm | Faculty of Pain Medicine

Chronic pain treatments and spinal cord stimulation key topics for international pain meeting The debilitating chronic pain condition fibromyalgia, opioid addiction and new developments in spinal cord stimulation are some of the topical issues to ... More >>

Burden of chronic pain in NZ worse than diabetes, dementia

Friday, 8 March 2019, 9:07 am | Faculty of Pain Medicine

Chronic pain costs New Zealand more than diabetes or dementia yet there is not a comprehensive plan to address it, according to new research commissioned by the Faculty of Pain Medicine of the Australian and New Zealand College of Anaesthetists ( FPM ... More >>

 
 
 
 
 

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