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HealthMark Multimedia Wins Gold Davey Award for Cancer Pain: Your Guide to Relief™, a CD-ROM to Help Cancer Patients and Caregivers Understand and Manage Pain

Cancer Pain: Your Guide to Relief™ receives prestigious Gold Davey Award for creative excellence.

New York, NY, November 7, 2005 - HealthMark Multimedia has been awarded the Gold Davey Award for their CD-ROM, Cancer Pain: Your Guide to Relief™. With over 2,000 entries from across the US and around the world, the Davey Awards honor the finest creative work from the best small firms, agencies and companies worldwide. Cancer Pain: Your Guide to Relief™ is a DC-ROM designed to help cancer patients and caregivers understand and manage pain.

The Davey Awards exclusively honor the "Davids" of creativity, the finest small firms, agencies and companies in the world. David defeated the giant Goliath with a big idea and a little rock - the sort of thing small firms do each year. The annual International Davey Awards honors the achievements of the "Creative Davids" who derive their strength from big ideas, rather than big budgets. The Davey Awards is the leading awards competition specifically for smaller firms, where firms compete with their peers to win the recognition they deserve. The Davey Awards is sanctioned and judged by the International Academy of the Visual Arts, an invitation-only body consisting of top-tier professionals from a "Who's Who" of acclaimed media, advertising, and marketing firms.

Cancer Pain: Your Guide to Relief™ is narrated with supporting graphics to make the information accessible to users with a range of education levels. This interactive CD-ROM provides information on cancer pain management, including: possible causes of pain; the importance of assessing and describing pain; use of medications; concerns regarding addiction to opioids; complementary methods of pain management, such as acupuncture; and how to work with the medical system to get the best care. Personal stories from patients and their loved ones present the challenges they faced, the knowledge they gained, and how they cope with chronic pain.

An interactive pain tool facilitates reporting pain to the health care team and helps patients track their pain levels and relief over time. Twelve printable fact sheets cover topics such as pain management during hospitalization, finding a pain specialist, and building trust with a doctor. Additionally there are 35 printable medication fact sheets that cover 220 medications for pain and other side effects.

Cancer Pain: Your Guide to Relief™ can be purchased for $19.95 for a version suitable for individuals and $150 for a multi-user version for organizations. Purchase information is found at www.HealthMarkMultimedia.com.