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 [...]

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 [...]

Brain and Behavior – Keeping Your Brain Fit

From the FMS Global News Desk of Jeanne Hambleton Courtesy usnews.com  There’s plenty you can do to slow the effects of aging. Here’s how to keep your thinking and memory sharp By Christine Larson    Marian Conte’s brain weighs 1,100 grams, according to Nintendo. “That’s up from 800 grams when I started playing,” jokes Conte, [...]

Rheumatoid Arthritis Hits Women Harder

From the FMS Global News Desk of Jeanne Hambleton   (HealthDay News) — Rheumatoid arthritis (RA) might affect women more often and more severely than men, new research suggests.  In a study of more than 6,000 people from around the world who had RA, about 79 percent of them women, Finnish researchers found that women [...]

Fibromyalgia Not a ‘Wastebasket Disease,’ Needs More Research

Re: ‘Fibromyalgia A Shadowy Illness Gets Push From Drug Firms,’ Feb. 9

Why being “my GP” to a patient will secure the future for Doctors

From the Fibromyalgia News Desk of Jeanne Hambleton By THE JOBBING DOCTOR  March 10  2009          In the first of his new weekly blogs for pulsetoday, The Jobbing Doctor recalls how his last patient of the week exemplified what general practice is about and demonstrated why it will survive despite the Government’s efforts to destroy it. [...]

CO-PROXAMOL – WHY ARE PATIENTS SUFFERING AND CAN IT BE A CONTROLLED DRUG?

By Jeanne Hambleton Copyright 2009       I have written 100 lines, given myself detention, washed my mouth out with soap and water and sat on the ‘naughty spot’ until my end went dead. This is the punishment I have given myself for my flippant posting on February 14. I do not know what [...]

AAN: Migraines Linked to Size of Waistline

Medical News from
AAN: American Academy of Neurology Meeting

NEW FMS CENTRE FOR ILLINOIS

Fibromyalgia Centers of America Announces Treatment Center in Illinois