The Psychosocial Disease? – Has Fibromyalgia Been Captured by a Behavioral Paradigm?
The very nature of fibromyalgia, like chronic fatigue syndrome (ME/CFS), has left it prone to psychological interpretations. No injury or lesion has ever been found. No accepted blood test points to a biological problem. The disease produces lots of symptoms – a sure...
Simmaron’s Fifth Anniversary Event Updates ME/CFS Community on Dynamic Research Underway
The Simmaron Research Foundation is definitely connected. It showed off how connected with a recent patient event headlined by Mady Hornig, Maureen Hanson, Konstance Knox and Elizabeth Unger. Find out what they had to say about present and future ME/CFS research as...
A Genetic Panel For Fibromyalgia? The new Proove Genetic Test
The Proove genetic test for fibromyalgia – is the first genetic test that I know of for FM. It’s not a diagnostic test – it’s focused on guiding treatment options. It identifies ten genes that can affect drug metabolism and one gene that affects...
“A Nation in Pain: Healing Our Biggest Health Problem” – A Review
Chronic pain costs more than heart disease, cancer and diabetes combined yet gets a fraction of their funding. Judy Foreman knows well the cost of our medical systems dysfunctional approach to pain. A medical journalist used to good medical care, she was dismayed by...
The Great Chronic Fatigue Syndrome (ME/CFS) Gene Project
“Little data” hasn’t come close to solving ME/CFS but “big data” might. We have Ron Davis, the OMF and Robert Naviaux digging away at the metabolome, Ian Lipkin and Mady Hornig probing into the microbiome, and now Dr. Nancy Klimas is...StudyME
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