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 [...]

What a sleep study can reveal about fibromyalgia

From the FMS Global New Desk of Jeanne Hambleton Courtesy Eurekalert.com Michigan Tech, U. Michigan team up on sleep research Research engineers and sleep medicine specialists from two Michigan universities have joined technical and clinical hands to put innovative quantitative analysis, signal-processing technology and computer algorithms to work in the sleep lab. One of their [...]

Fibromyalgia Research News

From the Fibromyalgia FMS Global News Desk of Jeanne Hambleton A service of the U.S. National Library of Medicine – NCBI – www.pubmed.gov and the National Institutes of Health Multidisciplinary care and stepwise treatment for fibromyalgia J Clin Psychiatry. 2009 Feb 9;69(12):e35. Arnold LM, Bradley LA, Clauw DJ, Glass JM, Goldenberg DL. Division of Women’s [...]

A ‘Murky Business’ – Yes it is REAL

AP Associated Press IMPACT:
Drug makers’ push boosts ‘murky’ ailment

F.D.A. TO PLACE NEW LIMITS ON PRESCRIPTIONS OF NARCOTICS

From the News Desk of Jeanne Hambleton By GARDINER HARRIS -Published: February 9, 2009 WASHINGTON — Many doctors may lose their ability to prescribe 24 popular narcotics as part of a new effort to reduce the deaths and injuries that result from these medicines’ inappropriate use, federal drug officials announced Monday. A new control program [...]

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)

PIERRE FABRE MEDICAMENT AND FOREST LABORATORIES TO COLLABORATE ON DEVELOPMENT AND COMMERCIALIZATION

Collaboration to develop proprietory selection norepinephrine and serotonin reuptake inhibitor for depression and central nervous system disorders.

New Research Funding CD is ready for production.

My own personal CD is ready to start raising research funding for our planned concert. Watch http://www.fibrohugs.org and http://fmsglobalnews.wordpress.com for news of the CD being in production and ready for sale. Music? Now your talking my language! I grew up in Detroit during the 60′s and 70′s and played guitar for numerous “garage bands” and [...]

Pain in fibromyalgia is linked to changes in brain molecule

March 10, 2008 Decreases in the amount of the neurotransmitter glutamate are linked to reductions in pain self-report in fibromyalgia patients Ann Arbor, MI – Researchers at the University of Michigan Health System have found a key linkage between pain and a specific brain molecule, a discovery that lends new insight into fibromyalgia, an often-baffling [...]

Disability and quality of life in patients with fibromyalgia.

Verbunt JA, Pernot DH, Smeets RJ. ABSTRACT: BACKGROUND: Patients with fibromyalgia often feel disabled in the performance of daily activities. Psychological factors seem to play a pronounced disabling role in fibromyalgia. The objectives of the study are: Firstly, to investigate contributing factors for disability in fibromyalgia. Secondly, to study psychological distress in patients with fibromyalgia [...]