Fibromyalgia and Chronic Fatigue Syndrome: In the News

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• NEWSBRIEF: Jazz Pharmaceuticals and UCB announce positive preliminary results in the first of two Phase III clinical trials of JZP-6 (sodium oxybate) for treating fibromyalgia. Sodium oxybate is the...
  Positive Prelimiary Results for Potential Fibromyalgia Treatment
  
  
• NEWSBRIEF: Research just published in the journal Molecular Medicine represents a first step toward an objective diagnostic test of chronic fatigue syndrome (CFS or ME/CFS) that's based on an abnormal...
  First Step Toward Exercise-Based Diagnosis of Chronic Fatigue Syndrome
  
  
• Overlapping Condition of the Week: Lupus Fibromyalgia and lupus are very similar-seeming illnesses that frequently go together. They share many of the same symptoms (pain, fatigue, brain fog), they're both...
  When You Have Fibromyalgia & Lupus
  
  
• Do you get sick of your doctor and well-meaning people telling you that you'd feel better if you got more exercise? For those of us with fibromyalgia (FMS) and...
  Re-Thinking "Exercise" for Fibromyalgia & Chronic Fatigue Syndrome
  
  
• OK, here's one I didn't see coming - a study published in the Journal of Altenative and Complementary Medicine says that whole-body vibration (WBV) can actually reduce pain and fatigue,...
  Whole Body Vibration as Fibromyalgia Treatment
  
  
• The squeaky wheel gets the grease, right? It's time for us all to squeak, squeal and scream as loud as we can to move fibromyalgia (FMS) and chronic fatigue...
  Want Action on Fibromyalgia & Chronic Fatigue Syndrome? Make Your Voice Heard!
  
  
• NEWSBRIEF: Citing the failure of newer treatments to live up to expectations, researchers compiled data from numerous studies of older treatments to see what works best for treating irritable bowel...
  IBS Treatments - What's Old is New Again
  
  
• Overlapping Condition of the Week: TMJ Does your jaw hurt and sometimes pop? Is it painful for you to open your mouth? You could have TMJ disorder, a condition...
  TMJ in People With Fibromyalgia or Chronic Fatigue Syndrome
  
  
• Fibromyalgia has a list of about 5 dozen symptoms, but I suspect that if we all compared notes we'd come up with quite a few that researchers haven't yet "discovered." A...
  Nose Bleeds & Hemorrhoids - Symptoms of Fibromyalgia?
  
  
• NEWSBRIEF: Seasonal affective disorder (SAD) may be at least partially caused by a genetic mutation in the eye that makes you less sensitive to light, according to research published in...
  Genetic Mutation May Help Cause Seasonal Affective Disorder