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 [...]

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 [...]

Fibromyalgia and Stress – Finding the Right Treatment

From FMS Global News Desk of Jeanne Hambleton (UK) Courtesy of Fibromyalgiaconsultant.com by Matt Dew   The two health problems puzzling many people are fibromyalgia and stress. Fibromyalgia and stress influence each other and often co-exist. Stress is a personalized response to the alterations in the environment that is based on personal perception of feeling [...]

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 [...]

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 [...]

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 [...]

Bye-Bye Cellulite

From the FMS Global News Desk of Jeanne Hambleton (UK) Courtesy WebMD.com By Kathleen Doheny -Reviewed by Louise Chang, MD - WebMD Feature -Reviewed on March 16, 2009   From radiofrequency waves to lasers, a host of new treatments promises to help you get rid of cellulite. At 39, Julie wears a svelte size 4 and works [...]

Pollen and Allergy Relief

From the FMS Global News Desk of Jeanne Hambleton  (UK) Courtesy of WebMD.com By Debra Fulghum Bruce, PhD - Reviewed by Brunilda Nazario, MD - WebMD Feature Here is some allergy relief Need some allergy relief? If you have allergies, you know that you can run, but you cannot hide from seasonal pollen. With the first deep breath of [...]