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BBC Online: Pain 'should be seen as disease'
Hospital doctors and academics are calling for chronic pain to be recognised as a disease in its own right, BBC Online reported on 1 March. It was reported that this would lead to more momentum for official strategies and funding to help patients.
Quoted in the article, Dr Beverly Collett, chair of the CPPC said: "This problem has huge ramifications for society as a whole. Pain is difficult to treat. Many patients are seeking reasons for what is behind the pain - but in the vast majority of cases, you can't find one. We are trying to get it taken more seriously - and there's a push, particularly in Europe, to say it is a disease in its own right."
The full article can be found on the BBC Online News page: http://news.bbc.co.uk/1/hi/health/8543561.stm
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