The American Academy of Pain Medicine

2005 Press Room

"Easing Your Pain" - Five Day Series
NBC Today Show - March 28 - April 1, 2005
Click here to view segments of AAPM President, Scott M. Fishman, MD, on the Today show.
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The Right and Wrong Way to Treat Pain
TIME Magazine - Feb. 28, 2005
"Scott Fishman, MD, president of the American Academy of Pain Medicine, laments the way insurance plans favor quick pharmaceutical fixes over the kinds of physical..."

Opioid Therapy and Prescribing at Forefront of Annual Meeting
AScribe Newswire - Feb. 25, 2005
"Opioid therapy and prescribing is a topic provoking discussion at AAPM's 21st Annual Meeting..."

COX-2 Controversy Not a Setback in Pain Medicine
AScribe Newswire - Feb. 24, 2005
"COX-2 drug class need not translate into undertreated pain, according to top pain experts gathered at the AAPM 21st Annual Meeting..."

European Commission Approves Prialttm
myDNA.com, TX - Feb. 23, 2005
"The data from the most recent Phase III study will be presented this week at the AAPM meeting in Palm Springs, California..."

New Clues for Sciatica Pain Relief
HealthCentral.com - Jan. 31, 2005
"While the study provides new clues to sciatica, experts say its results need to be duplicated. When patients complain of sciatica, "we typically focus on spinal nerves," explained Dr. Scott M. Fishman, president-elect of the American Academy of Pain Medicine..."