The Pain Project

14/04/2012

http://www.journalism.ubc.ca/news/item/the_pain_project_wins_second_place_in_2011_ahcj_awards

The UBC School of Journalism’s International Reporting Program has been awarded second place in the 2011 Awards for Excellence in Health Care Journalism for The Pain Project’s documentary “Freedom from Pain,” which aired on Al Jazeera on July 20, 2011.

11/03/2012

The CBS Sunday piece showcasing the International Reporting Project's reporting in Uganda, part of The Pain Project, is now online.

Going through painful surgery or suffering from a debilitating cancer without painkillers may sound unimaginable, but it's the reality for five billion patients in half the countries of the world. Bob Simon of "60 Minutes" teamed up with students from the University of British Columbia to see firsth...

11/03/2012

Be sure to tune in to CBS Sunday Morning Sunday, March 11th, when the International Reporting Program's reporting in Uganda, part of The Pain Project, will be the lead story. Check your local listings!

http://www.cbsnews.com/stories/2010/10/26/sunday/main6993125.shtml

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26/01/2012

In Canada, patients in extreme pain are prescribed pain killers. But that's not the case all over the world. In places such as Ukraine, the war on drugs is keeping many suffering and keeping thousands in pain from getting morphine.

28/10/2011

This episode of 16x9, which will focus on the Pain Project's reporting in Ukraine, will air Saturday, Oct. 29th at 7pm on Global News.

Life in Pain

15/10/2011

If you like the Pain Project, please go to the comments sections of the main site and leave a comment. We welcome feedback and ideas, and also would like to hear some of your stories about dealing with pain -- either in N. American or anywhere in the world. Go to: www.internationalreporting.org/morphine

The documentary is excellent. However, it’s always cute when the people doing such projects broadcast a glaring ignorance in the technical knowledge of the subject. In a recent issues of Anesthesiology News, Peter Klein was quoted as saying, “I had never before thought of freedom from pain as a ba...

15/10/2011

Check out the full project at http://www.internationalreporting.org/pain

24/09/2011

Diederik Lohman, a senior researcher with Human Rights Watch, explains why lack of access to pain medication is an abuse of human rights.

21/09/2011

The Pain Project is featured in the September issue of Anesthesiology News.

Is proper pain care a basic human right? This question was posed by a group of aspiring journalists and filmmakers in “Freedom From Pain,” a 30-minute documentary created by students at the University of British Columbia (UBC) in Vancouver, Canada.

19/09/2011

UBC's Graduate School of Journalism has launched The Pain Project, which documents its ongoing investigation into the lack of access to morphine, the gold standard for treating pain.

This map is based on 2006-2008 data gathered by the University of Wisconsin Pain and Policy Studies Group, UW Carbone Cancer Center from the INCB and United Nations.

19/09/2011

How Dr. Anne Merriman helped Uganda become a model for palliative care in Africa.

19/09/2011

Why a young Ukrainian man risks imprisonment delivering morphine to terminally ill patients in their homes.