Relief at Last? The Next Generation of Opioid Drugs, Fibromyalgia and Chronic Pain
Twenty billion dollars a year… That’s how much Americans in chronic pain spend on prescription pain-killers every year. Most of these are opioid drugs, but the increasing regulatory burden foisted on them and the growing realization of how ineffective and...
The Beast, the Disease and the Breakthrough: A Way Forward for ME/CFS and Fibromyalgia?
A Young Doctor Fights to Cure His Own Rare, Deadly Disease His Doctors Were Stumped. Then He Took Over. The “Beast” was just twenty-five years old. A physical specimen, David Fajgenbaum went from gym rat to invalid incredibly quickly. First his lymph nodes...
Chronic Fatigue Syndrome Studies Link Autonomic Nervous System Problems to Brain
Dr. Barnden of the National Centre for NeuroImmnology and Emerging Diseases (NCNED) in Griffith University, Australia has been doing some fascinating brain imaging work in chronic fatigue syndrome (ME/CFS). Over the past six years Barnden has been publishing results...
The NIH’s Five Year Funding Increase for Chronic Fatigue Syndrome (ME/CFS): Does it Pass Muster?
In November 2015 NIH Director Francis Coillins said that NIH was going to “ramp up” funding for ME/CFS and that it would be “substantially greater” than the current five or six million dollars a year the disease was getting. “Just watch...
The Brain Initiative: A Boon For Fibromyalgia and Chronic Fatigue Syndrome (ME/CFS) ?
The bad news for fibromyalgia and ME/CFS is that the most complex, impenetrable and difficult to understand organ of all – the brain – appears to be heavily involved in both diseases. The good news is that the NIH aims to leapfrog its ability to understand...StudyME
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