Tag: science

  • Forum in Valencia

    By Agnes Kittel This year Valencia (Spain)  was the host city of the present conference of a biennial series organized by the European Pain Association (EFIC).  The conference was held in the FIRA Center between  September 4-7, 2019 and visited by 3500 participants . This series of conferences is a special one. The audience could…

  • European Health Forum Gastein 2019

    By Agnes Kittel Austria has many places famous about their natural beauty and it is for sure that Bad Hofgastein is among the best ones. The mountains with or without snow on their top, surround the little town, which new and older but evenly nicely decorated houses, villas and hotels, everything reveals richness and peacefulness…

  • The importance to combat climate change and environmental pollution to protect human health in Europe

    By Bartolomeo Buscema Healthcare in Europe is provided through a wide range of different systems run at individual national levels. There is a need to harmonize all national systems in order to achieve best practices together with economical results. In this scenery, about six hundred  of  European health policy experts , member of civil society, academia and…

  • 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…

  • The story of pain in Valencia

    The European Pain Federation (EFIC) has offered EUSJA 10 grants to attend its biennial Congress in Valencia in 4-7 September (https://efic-congress.org/). The grants include free registration (no conference fees for our members), 3 night accommodation, 40 euros per diem for meals and free local transportation. Journalists have to take care of their travel to and from Valencia. As…