
Fibromyalgia patients often suffer from chronic pain, but for some reason they find commonly prescribed pain medications are not very effective. Researchers at the University of Michigan Health System believe [...]
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Heanne Hambleton lives in England and has found what so many other Fibromyalgia patients have experienced world wide–that it is difficult for friends, family, and neighbors to understand and appreciate [...]
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Currently, over 20 drugs are in development for the treatment of fibromyalgia. That number is expected to grow in the next year.
At present, the only drug to be approved for [...]
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Most guidelines suggest that Fibromyalgia affects people over 40 and affects 9 times as many women as men. It might be time to revise that traditional thinking according to a [...]
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CNN Money recently ran a Dow Jones Newswire story about Eli Lilly’s recent study using Cymbalta for reducing pain in fibromyalgia patients.*
Eli Lilly’s study claims that after one week fibromyalgia patients [...]
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It is difficult to discuss Fibromyalgia Syndrome (FMS) without chronic pain entering the discussion. There are a lot of theories about what causes the pain and just as many theories [...]
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The National Institutes of Health (NIH) consists of numerous institutes that address a variety of medical issues. Often the addressed diseases and conditions deal with chronic pain and the NIH [...]
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Lindsay is a blogger who frequently posts about her struggle with Fibromyalgia (FMS). She has been dealing with it for the past decade and only identified it as FMS for [...]
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In a Rheumatology Journalarticle researchers report on how they measured the blood flow and skin temperature in the area of 5 known tender points of both Fibromyalgia syndrome (FMS) patients [...]
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Currently, Fibromyalgia syndrome (FMS) is primarily diagnosed when a patient has 11 tender points (out of a possible 18) in all 4 quadrants of the body. This criteria was developed [...]
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