Top 6 Myths: About Bottled Water

From the FMS Global & UK News Desk of Jeanne Hambleton
Courtesy of WebMD – Feature from “Marie Claire” Magazine

By Anndee Hochman
Bottled water — already a more than $10 billion industry — is the fastest-growing beverage category in the U.S. But is it good for you? Here’s the pure truth.
Myth #1: BOTTLED WATER IS [...]

Cognitive behavioral therapy — What is it?

From the FMS Global News Desk of Jeanne Hambleton
Courtesy of MayoClinic.com
By Gabrielle J. Melin, M.D. -March 19, 2009

Have you ever heard of cognitive behavioral therapy or CBT?
If you haven not, this blog will help you to understand how your thinking can affect your mood. The thoughts in your head can affect the way you feel, [...]

Defend Yourself with a Good Night’s Sleep

From the FMS News Desk of Jeanne Hambleton
Courtesy FibromyalgiaNetwork.com
Persistent pain and disturbed sleep create a tremendous stress on the body that could potentially drag down a person’s immune system. Given that people with fibromyalgia battle sleep disruption, pain and a number of other stressful symptoms, you may be wondering what impact this is having on [...]

Nuclear Medicine: New World of Diagnosing and Treating Illness

From the FMS Global News Desk of Jeanne Hambleton
Courtesy of the Society of Nuclear Medicine – Advancing Molecular Imaging and Therapy
(https://interactive.snm.org/)

IMAGES THE BODY’S BIOLOGICAL PROCESSES

Nuclear medicine is a medical specialty that uses very small amounts of radioactive materials (radiopharmaceuticals) to diagnose, guide management and treat disease. Most nuclear medicine procedures are molecular imaging procedures that [...]

Chronic Opioid Therapy Guidelines Offer Direction for Physicians

From the FMS Global News Desk of Jeanne Hambleton
Courtesy of Fibromyalgia Network – February 2009
While patients are rightfully concerned about not receiving adequate pain relief, physicians harbor fears about drug abuse, safety issues, and government oversight. New clinical guidelines for the use of chronic opioid therapy in chronic non-cancer pain patients, developed by consensus [...]

Prescriptions for opioids jump following co-proxamol ban

From the FMS Global News Desk of Jeanne Hambleton
Courtesy PulseToday.co.uk.

By Lilian Anekwe – 17 March 2009
Opioid prescriptions have jumped during the withdrawal of co-proxamol, with GPs apparently struggling to find adequate means of pain control for some patients.
Prescriptions for morphine have risen by more than 40% and those for tramadol by two-thirds since co-proxamol use [...]

Many Chronic Patients Cannot Afford Care

From the FMS Global News Desk of Jeanne Hambleton
By Kristina Fiore, Staff Writer, MedPage Today
Published: March 20, 2009
WASHINGTON, March 20 — One patient in four with a chronic condition has postponed healthcare or filling a prescription in the past year because he cannot afford it, researchers here said.
Latinos (43%) and middle-age women (39%) are among [...]

Can a Magnetic Connection Cure Pain?

From the FMS News Desk of Jeanne Hambleton
Courtesy Healthnews.com – ALTERNATIVE MEDICINE

By: Lara Endreszl
As a kid, I had a bunch of little round magnets that were supposed to be glued onto the back of homemade refrigerator magnets. Instead I used to stack them up on the kitchen table and turn them around and [...]

MD accused of falsifying findings in 21 important pain-drug studies

“His findings had a huge impact on the field…. Doctors have been using (his) findings very widely.” – Dr. Steven Shafer, editor, Anesthesia and Analgesia

Is gabapentin (Neurontin) an effective fibromyalgia treatment?

Neurontin: A new treatment for fibromyalgia?