EUROPEAN NETWORK of FIBROMYALGIA ASSOCIATIONS

The European Medicines Agency (EMEA) are to have a consultation with a delegation from the European Network of Fibromyalgia Associations (ENFA)

NEW DATA ON THERAPIES FOR PAIN AND INFLAMMATION FROM PFIZER

By Jeanne Hambleton © Fibromite NFA Leader Against Pain While I am a great believer in positive thinking, I have to accept that medication can be the only way that allows some people to live with pain and this impossible invisible condition called fibromyalgia. From this point of view I must say I am pleased [...]

[Perceived pain and weather changes in rheumatic patients]

[Article in Portuguese] Miranda LC, Parente M, Silva C, Clemente-Coelho P, Santos H, Cortes S, Medeiros D, Ribeiro JS, Barcelos F, Sousa M, Miguel C, Figueiredo R, Mediavilla M, Simões E, Silva M, Patto JV, Madeira H, Ferreira J, Micaelo M, Leitão R, Las V, Faustino A, Teixeira A. Instituto Português de Reumatologia. luis.miranda@ipr.pt INTRODUCTION: [...]

Growth hormone as concomitant treatment in severe fibromyalgia associated with low IGF-1 serum levels. A pilot study.

Cuatrecasas G, Riudavets C, Guell MA, Nadal A. ABSTRACT: BACKGROUND: There is evidence of functional growth hormone (GH) deficiency, expressed by means of low insulin-like growth factor 1 (IGF-1) serum levels, in a subset of fibromyalgia patients. The efficacy of GH versus placebo has been previously suggested in this population. We investigated the efficacy and [...]

Phoenix Rising Researcher of the Year, Paper of the Year and Top Ten Papers

by Cort Johnson © 2007 This is coming a bit late but I encourage you to take a look back at 2006. 2006- “The Year of Innovation” – was a extraordinarily interesting year in ME/CFS as researchers again and again applied cutting edge technology in their efforts to understand it These efforts resulted in important [...]

Coping styles in fibromyalgia: effect of co-morbid posttraumatic stress disorder.

Ablin JN, Cohen H, Neumann L, Kaplan Z, Buskila D. Institute of Rheumatology, Tel-Aviv Sourasky Medical Center and Sackler Faculty of Medicine, Tel-Aviv University, 6 Weizman St., Tel-Aviv, 64239, Israel, ajacob@post.tau.ac.il. To analyze coping styles of fibromyalgia (FM) patients with specific emphasis on differences in coping styles between fibromyalgia patients with and without post traumatic [...]

PETROL PROTESTS FROM SATURDAY

by Jeanne Hambleton © 2007 NFA Leader Against Pain-Advocate A blog inviting comments from UK motorists about the hike in fuel costs and a protest, launched by Brendan McLoughlin from his website petrolprices.com has attracted more than 2600 signatures in 36 hours with overwhelming support for a fuel protest. The response has so far been [...]

A PICTURES PAINTS A THOUSAND WORDS

by Jeanne Hambleton © 2007 NFA Leader Against Pain-Advocate I don’t know how in the world a ‘Man in a Bear Suit’ won the prestigious UK Turner Prize. I am still shaking my head in amazement. I would suggest the judges should have looked at http://www.art4africa.co.uk/ before making their decision. This certainly brought a lump [...]

CARER OF THE YEAR AWARD FOR DAUGHTER (13) WHO CARE FOR FIBROMITE MOTHER

by Jeanne Hambleton © 2007 NFA Leader Against Pain-Advocate This story began on this weblog. I received an email from a lady, severely disabled with fibromyagia, who called herself Sez. She responded to my plea to sign the e-petition seeking more funding from the government for fibromyalgia. From her comments and the effort it took [...]

CONGO ON DOGGIE DEATH ROW GETS WORLDWIDE SUPPORT AND TV PUBLICITY FOR HIS REPRIEVE

by Jeanne Hambleton © Without prejudice NFA Leader Against Pain Last month I wrote the sad story of a German Shepherd dog called Congo who had been sentenced to death, and who is now on a temporary reprieve awaiting a final verdict. His crime was doing what all dogs do – protecting the ones he [...]