THE GREEN THINGY – should be compulsory reading!

From Jeanne Hambleton with fibro hugs This morning I received this email as recommended reading.  Do hope I am not in breach of anything but it really is an eye opener.  I had not realised quite how much our living patterns had changed. Now I think is it any wonder  that we are ill, poisoning [...]

Heard Through the Grapevine: Test kit for XMRV to be available from Reno-based VIP Dx

From the  FMS Global News Desk of Jeanne Hambleton Courtesy of ProHealth Copyright © 2009 ProHealth, Inc.     Rumor on the ProHealth Message Boards has it that Viral Immune Pathology Diagnostics (VIP Dx) in Reno, Nevada (www.redlabsusa.com), will soon make available a test kit for the XMRV virus – the retrovirus which most of [...]

MAY 12 – WORLDWIDE FMS AWARENESS DAY

by Jeanne Hambleton Copyright 2009  May this 12 May blossom into a wonderful year Somehow I just could not let today pass without making some effort to celebrate International  Fibromyalgia Awareness Day together with others who suffer chronic pain and long term illnesses. We constantly strive to raise awareness about this chronic condition  but my [...]

Culinary Medicine: Can Certain Foods Make You Healthier?

From the FMS Global News Desk of Jeanne Hambleton (UK) Courtesy of WebMD.com By Elizabeth Lee -Reviewed by Louise Chang, MD - WebMD Feature A best-selling diet book promises to prevent disease by teaching you to cook like a chef and think like a doctor.   Imagine preventing breast cancer by eating broccoli and kalamata olive pizza, avoiding Alzheimer’s by skipping [...]

FDA Approves Simponi

From the FMS Global News Desk of Jeanne Hambleton (UK) Courtesy of  Drugs.com  Simponi (golimumab) Receives FDA Approval as First Once-Monthly Anti-TNF for Treatment of Theumatoid Arthritis, Psoriatic Arthritis and Ankylosing Spondylitis HORSHAM, Pa., April 24 /PRNewswire Centocor Ortho Biotech Inc. announced today that the U.S. Food and Drug Administration (FDA) has approved Simponi (golimumab) for the [...]

Baroness Young: ‘Tell patients what their GP care costs’

From the FMS Global News Desk of Jeanne Hambleton (UK) Courtesy PulseToday.com By Gareth Iacobucci -16 Apr 09 The chair of the Government’s new health and social care regulator has re-ignited the debate over whether patients should be told the cost of their healthcare, by calling for them to be given ‘indicative bills’ showing how much [...]

So Botox Is Not Just Skin Deep

From the FMS Global News Desk of Jeanne Hambleton Courtesy TimesDaily.com. NEW YORK TIMES HEALTH STORIES (Fibromyalgia Pain Patent) by NATASHA SINGER - April 13, 2009 at DR. MARK STILLMAN, the director of the Center for Headache and Pain at the Cleveland Clinic, has a treatment for people with frequent migraines: he injects Botox around the head [...]

Alternative Therapies Can be Safe, Effective for Children

Complementary and alternative therapies are becoming more and more popular in the ‘pint-size’ set. A University of Michigan pediatrician discusses the use of complementary and alternative therapies in children and offers advice on what may be safe and effective and what should be avoided.

New Poll Shows Use of Alternative Medicine on the Rise

From the FMS Global News Desk of Jeanne Hambleton Courtesy Healthnews.com By: Lara Endreszl    Complementary and Alternative Medicine—commonly shortened to CAM—is often thought to be a secondary form of treatment, or fallback, when conventional medicine on its own fails to succeed. In 1990, a Harvard researcher published a poll showing that approximately one-third of Americans [...]

Got Pain?

From the FMS News Desk of Jeanne Hambleton  Courtesy of American Academy of Orthopaedic Surgeons (AAOS)    Newswise — Tying a shoe, typing an email, opening a jar, texting on a Blackberry. The mobility of our fingers and wrists can often be taken for granted. That is until the throbbing pain begins, and interferes with simple, [...]