Approximately 100 million Americans live with persistent pain--more than diabetes, heart disease, and cancer combined. Persistent pain makes patients five times more likely to utilize health care services, more than five times more likely to miss work, and results in an estimated annual cost of almost $635 billion in health care costs and lost-productivity.

Join the Alliance for Aging Research, in partnership with the American Osteopathic Association, American Chronic Pain Association, and the U.S. Pain Foundation, as they discuss the latest volume of the Alliance's Silver Book®, which shines the spotlight on the human and economic burden of persistent pain and explores the value of innovation in reducing these burdens.

DETAILS:

Wednesday, February 20, 2013

12:00 p.m. -1:30 p.m. (Lunch will be available)

Room B-354 Rayburn House Office Building, Washington, D.C.

SPEAKERS INCLUDE: