Healing Chronic Pain? An Update on the NIH’s $2 Billion HEAL Project to End Chronic Pain
The NIH' HEAL has spent $2 billion trying to figure out a way to treat chronic pain and end addiction. How's it doing and will it help fibromyalgia?
A Herpesvirus for Fibromyalgia? Active Herpes Simplex Virus Found in FM Patients’ Guts
Active herpes simplex virus found in the guts of fibromyalgia patients could be contributing to or causing the disease. An antiviral trial is under way.
Immune Cells May Be Killing the Small Nerve Fibers in Fibromyalgia
Immune cells called natural killer cells may be killing the small nerve fibers found in the skin, eyes and elsewhere in fibromyalgia.
No Neuroinflammation Needed? An Epic ME/CFS Hypothesis Series Winds Up
Part 3 of an epic chronic fatigue syndrome hypothesis series attempts to explain the sleep, brain-fog, fatigue and cognitive problems found in ME/CFS.
The Pain Gender Gap: Women and Men Really Are From Different Planets When It Comes to Pain
Despite the fact that some have postulated men and women come from different planets, the medical profession has long assumed that when it comes to biology men make a fine stand-in for women. That attitude has been steadily changing and a brilliant Canadian study...Lives Interrupted Latest Story
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