Month: September 2019

  • Pain, just a symptom or a disease on its right?

    By Merce Piqueras When I told a friend of mine, who is a nurse, that I was to attend a meeting on pain, she asked me: “Is it an anaesthesiology meeting?” My friend, like other professionals of health, assumes that pain is the province of anaesthesiologists, the specialists whose main task is to prevent pain…

  • Open Call for Journalists Grant Applications

            The Hungarian Academy of Sciences  & the European Union of Science Journalists’ Associations Announce Grant Scheme for Journalists Attending the 9th World Science Forum in Budapest, 20-23 November 2019 www.worldscienceforum.org Background The 2019 World Science Forum (WSF) will take place between 20-23 November in Budapest under the title “Science, Ethics and Responsibility”.…

  • EFIC 2019 : networking for fighting pain

    By Cinzia Bolschiero, science journalist (UGIS, Italy)  Ten EUSJA journalists attended  recently one of the biggest European congresses. And here is the first blog that has been sent by our members to EUSJA web page.              The Congress, EFIC 2019 held between 4 – 7 September in Valencia, Spain, is the largest scientific congress on…