Millions of people who live with chronic pain experience intense stigma.  Health care providers are a major source of it, but so are intimate partners, family caregivers, insurers, and policymakers.  Stigma isolates people, causes suffering, and violates basic obligations to treat people fairly and with dignity. Accordingly, we should intervene to alleviate it. Read the full article.

Results of a survey of over 200 cancer patients, co-authored by Eric Campbell, PhD, were recently published.  The paper, Patient Preferences for Use of Archived Biospecimens from Oncology Trials when Adequacy of Informed Consent is Unclear, concludes that the majority of patients support translational research and expect that any biospecimens they donate will be used to advance knowledge. Click for publication>>