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 [...]

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 [...]

Catalan Government Leaves CFS/ME/FMS Patients High and Dry

From the FMS Global New Desk (UK) by Jeanne Hambleton  Copyright 2009 All Rights Reserved I need your help again please  -  but this time BIG TIME! In November 2007 I wrote two stories about the people of Catalonian Spain who have CFS/ME/FMS and their efforts to get recognition from their Government for their problems [...]

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.

I, Nanny: Robot Babysitters Pose Dilemma

It is no wonder Japan has been called “the robot kingdom.” Of the world’s at least 923,000 industrial robots, about 4 in 10 are in Japan. Now Japanese interest is turning to so-called service robots, which could play a crucial role in looking after the nation’s aging population.

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 [...]

Fibromyalgia myths: The truth about nine common myths

Get the facts about these nine common fibromyalgia myths. Learning all you can about fibromyalgia is the first step toward gaining control of your symptoms.

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, [...]