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08
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The New Year is a celebration of new beginnings. This may be especially true as we welcome 2021, which we hope will be a resilient New Year. Resilience sustains us through adversity by cultivating practices that help us cope … and 2020 was nothing if not full of adversity. How can we practice resilience in… Read More »
Posted in: All of Us
Jan
05
0 comments Tags: Addiction, integrative medicine, pain
In September 2020, the National Institutes of Health hosted a two-day workshop on the intersection of substance use disorder and the management of myofascial pain. You are able to view the VideoCast for Day One and Day Two. The workshop opened by recognizing that our current opioid crisis arose from the mishandling of chronic pain…. Read More »
Posted in: NIH
Dec
29
0 comments Tags: Addiction, Massachusetts Consultation Service for Treatment of Addiction and Pain, MCSTAP, pain, substance use disorder
One of the NER’s Year 5 funded grant recipients is the Massachusetts Consultation Service for Addiction and Pain or MCSTAP (https://mcstap.com/) for short. MCSTAP’s goal is to help primary care providers increase their capacity for and comfort in using evidence-based practices to screen, diagnose, treat and manage the care of patients with chronic pain,… Read More »
Posted in: Blog, Funded Project, Public Health
Dec
21
0 comments Tags: funded partner, history of medicine, National Library of Medicine, Public Health
We talk a lot about resources like MedlinePlus or PubMed, but one of the things we don’t talk about as much is the fact that the National Library of Medicine is a physical library that includes a large collection of historical documents, records and more. And these resources are available to the public through the… Read More »
Posted in: NLM Resources
Dec
18
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On Saturday morning, with my morning coffee I look at the trees lining the front of my property and feel relaxed. Something about the little wooded area just seems to feel right. So, when I read about the Globe Observer: Trees project being presented by SciStarter. I thought, why not trees! We all have some… Read More »
Posted in: Blog