Armin Oskouei, MD, is the director of interventional spine at SpineCenterAtlanta. He performed the first endoscopic spine surgery in Atlanta this year. He has led research teams in both basic science research and clinical research. He is also an assistant professor of anesthesiology at Emory University Hospital in Atlanta.

Martin Schiavenato, PhD, RN, a Robert Wood Johnson Foundation Nurse Faculty Scholar, has invented a machine to assess pain in premature infants and potentially protect them from its negative developmental effects, according to a press release from the foundation.

The International Guidelines Center, a developer of best practice tools for major medical societies, announced that it sponsoring and organizing a Postsurgical Pain Congress that will address gaps in U.S. postsurgical pain management practices.

A new study, published in the current issue of PAIN, has found that along with well-documented racial disparities in prescribing opioid medications for chronic pain, there are also racial disparities in the use of recommended opioid monitoring and follow-up treatment practices, according to a News-Medical report.

A new study published online in Molecular Psychiatry has found that when physicians effectively relieve their patients' pain, the region of their brain activity mirrored that of a patient experiencing a placebo effect, according to a Popular Science report.

SPR Therapeutics, a medical device company, has raised $5 million in the initial phase of financing for the commercialization of pain therapies using its proprietary peripheral nerve stimulation technology, according to a peHUB report.   

Hydrocision hopes to spread the word about the effectiveness of its minimally invasive treatment for herniated disc pain, according to the Boston Business Journal.

Brigham and Women's Hospital in Boston announced that researchers at the hospital have found that specific brain patterns appear to track the severity of pain reported by patients.

A new survey from the American Osteopathic Association finds that almost all Americans can name one thing that triggers physical pain during the winter and half of them put off talking about it to their physicians until after the holidays.

The Society for Advanced Spinal Intervention has announced its launch via the internet and has made known its initiatives and goals.