㽶Ƶ News - Alan Edwards Centre for Research on Pain /channels/news_feeds/all/term/Alan%20Edwards%20Centre%20for%20Research%20on%20Pain/rss en Dr. Mark Ware, vice-chair of task force on cannabis /channels/news/dr-mark-ware-vice-chair-task-force-cannabis-261602 <div class="field field-name-body field-type-text-with-summary field-label-hidden"><div class="field-items"><div class="field-item even"><p>World-renowned pain specialist and medical cannabis researcher Dr. Mark Ware, director of clinical research at the Alan Edwards Pain Management Unit of the 㽶Ƶ Health Centre (MUHC), has been nominated vice-chair of an important federal task force that will provide guidance to the Canadian government as it prepares to introduce legislation to legalize marijuana in spring 2017.</p></div></div></div><div class="field field-name-field-primary-image field-type-image field-label-hidden"><div class="field-items"><div class="field-item even"><img class="no-float" src="/channels/files/channels/styles/wysiwyg_medium/public/channels/image/ware-mark200.jpg?itok=PWyu_OIn" width="160" height="223" /></div></div></div><div class="field field-name-field-published-date field-type-datestamp field-label-hidden"><div class="field-items"><div class="field-item even"><div class="custom-multi-date"><div class="multi-date first"><span class="label">Published: </span><span class="day">30 </span><span class="month">June </span><span class="year">2016</span></div></div></div></div></div> Thu, 30 Jun 2016 18:54:07 +0000 webfull 119741 at /channels 50th anniversary of "Pain Mechanisms: A New Theory" /channels/news/50th-anniversary-pain-mechanisms-new-theory-256801 <div class="field field-name-body field-type-text-with-summary field-label-hidden"><div class="field-items"><div class="field-item even"><p>November 19 marks the 50<sup>th</sup> anniversary of the ground-breaking paper, “<a href="http://www.sciencemag.org/content/150/3699/971.full.pdf">Pain Mechanisms: A New Theory</a>” co-authored by McGill’s Ronald Melzack, and the late Patrick Wall, which introduced <a href="http://thebrain.mcgill.ca/flash/d/d_03/d_03_cl/d_03_cl_dou/d_03_cl_dou.html#2">gate-control theory</a>.</p></div></div></div><div class="field field-name-field-published-date field-type-datestamp field-label-hidden"><div class="field-items"><div class="field-item even"><div class="custom-multi-date"><div class="multi-date first"><span class="label">Published: </span><span class="day">17 </span><span class="month">November </span><span class="year">2015</span></div></div></div></div></div> Tue, 17 Nov 2015 18:58:47 +0000 webfull 114041 at /channels