THE GIST Check out the blog for Geoff’s narration of the GIST and the blog 🙂 The FDA approved 3 drugs in 3 years (Lyrica (Pregabalin) – 2007), Cymbalta (Duloxetine) – 2008, and Savella (Milnacipran) – 2009) to treat fibromyalgia in the U.S. but...
Thanks to Geoff for providing a narration of this blog The “complement” system doesn’t at first glance sound like much. Its name reflects the fact that, in part, it “complements” the immune system; i.e. it triggers immune cells to...
Listen to Geoff’s narration of this blog This is a wrenching, disturbing blog. It’s putatively about the war on cancer, but it’s really about medicine and all the weirdnesses that goes into fighting a disease. You might think that in cancer...
Want to listen to the blog? Thanks to Geoff for providing a narration of it. 🙂 The multiple sclerosis drug Copaxone (glatiramer acetate) is back in the chronic fatigue syndrome (ME/CFS) news. Health Rising first reported that Copaxone helped some ME/CFS...
Courtney Craig is something of a rarity. For one, it took her years, and a lot of study and trial and error, but she was able to become, in her words, a very “high-functioning” person with chronic fatigue syndrome/fibromyalgia (ME/CFS/FM). Coming down with...