IRELANDS FIRST PAIN RESEARCH CENTRE OPENS IN GALWAY

Date Published: 08-Oct-2007

Ireland's first dedicated Centre for Pain Research has opened at NUI Galway. Over 30 academics, researchers and clinicians from both NUIG and the HSE will work together at the centre to compare research on pain in a bid to better understand its effectsOver half a million people in Ireland suffer from chronic pain on a daily basis with one in six losing their job as a result.Pain also costs the taxpayer over 1.2 million euro a week in disability benefit payments alone.Dr David Finn and Dr Brian McGuire are joint directors of the new Centre for Pain Research.