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Mindful Teenagers Cope Better with Pain! A recent study published by Mark Petter (Dalhousie University PhD student, supervised by Dr. Christine Chambers) reveals that pain seems to have less of an impact in the day-to-day lives of teenagers who are more mindful. [...] read more

Why is pain in children ignored? By Patrick McGrath It is hard to believe that in the mid 1980s it was standard care, even in many academic health centres, for infants to have open heart surgery with no anaesthesia but just a drug to keep the infant still. This practice [...] read more

It Doesn’t Have to Hurt: Strategies for Helping Children with Shots and Needles Are your kids upset about the pain and distress of getting a needle? It doesn’t have to be this way. Watch the Centre for Pediatric Pain Research’s 2-minute video [...] read more

Yesterday, November 17th, was World Prematurity Day. 1 in 10 children are born premature. This high-risk population are especially vulnerable to a variety of adverse outcomes. Dr. Marsha Campbell-Yeo, a neonatal nurse practitioner and faculty member of the Centre for [...] read more

It Doesn’t Have to Hurt: Strategies for Helping Children with Shots and Needles Are your kids upset about the pain and distress of getting a needle? It doesn’t have to be this way. Watch the Centre for Pediatric Pain Research’s 2-minute video [...] read more