It must have seemed like a done deal. Daiichi Sankyo was so confident that its safer, more effective version of Lyrica (pregabalin) called Mirogabalin was going to beat the pants off the best-selling drug for FM. How confident were they? They funded easily the largest...
Both fibromyalgia (FM) and chronic fatigue syndrome (ME/CFS) clearly need better treatments. The FDA-approved drugs for these diseases are too often ineffective, come with too many side effects (fibromyalgia) or just aren’t available at all (ME/CFS). Too many...
“Finding an objective neurochemical change in the brains of people who are used to being told that their problems are imaginary is pretty important…” Marco Loggia Jarred Younger has believed for quite some time that the glial cells in fibromyalgia...
Daniel Clauw M.D. With 200 publications reaching back over twenty years Daniel Clauw is perhaps the most prolific fibromyalgia researcher of our time. He’s fought for many years to validate fibromyalgia as a real and serious illness. (For years the...
The “Global Pain” Diseases There are two kinds of “pain” in fibromyalgia. There’s a more ordinary kind of pain – the burning, stabbing, aching, etc. usually associated with some type of injury (even though no overt physical injuries...
It wasn’t supposed to go this way. Daiichi Sankyo bet big, big money that it’s safer, more effective version of Lyrica (pregabalin) called mirogabalin was going to be the next big thing in fibromaylgia (FM). It was so confident that it embarked on a...