SLEEP DEPRIVATION CAN SLOW YOUR REACTION

From the FMS Global News Desk of Jeanne Hambleton Courtesy of the National Sleep Foundation  November 23, 2009 Sleep deprivation can have an enormous impact on your health and happiness. Apparently, it can also affect your ability to make split-second decisions, according to a recent study in the journal SLEEP. Researchers at the University of [...]

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 [...]

Alternative Treatments for Fibromyalgia

From the FMS Global News Desk of Jeanne Hambleton (UK) Courtesy WebMD.com    How well do they work? By Jeanie Lerche Davis  Reviewed by Brunilda Nazario, MD   To get relief from fibromyalgia pain, more and more people are trying alternative treatments. It is often instinctive — putting an icepack on a painful spot or reaching for [...]

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 [...]

Savella (milnacipran) FDA-Approved for Fibromyalgia

From the FMS Global News Desk of Jeanne Hambleton  Courtesy Fibromyalgia Network (Posted: January 29, 2009)   The Food and Drug Administration (FDA) on Jan. 14, approved Savella as the first drug specifically for the treatment of fibromyalgia … and not just the pain. During clinical trials, the Fibromyalgia Network has been referring to Savella [...]

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 [...]

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