Fibromyalgia News

• Relugolix Combo Eases Long-Neglected Fibroid Symptom: Pain Combination therapy with relugolix (Orgovyx, Relumina), a gonadotropin-releasing hormone antagonist, significantly reduced the pain of uterine fibroids in a new study.
  Medscape Medical News, May 11, 2022
• OARSI 2022 High Comorbidity Rate Seen Before Osteoarthritis Diagnosis Since this was an explorative study, the results are "very interesting starting points for future research," said one of the investigators.
  Medscape Medical News, April 13, 2022
• Juvenile Fibromyalgia Is Associated With Brain Changes The similarity of the brain changes observed in younger and older patients suggests a link between juvenile and adult forms of the disease, according to the researchers.
  Medscape Medical News, April 01, 2022
• RWCS 2022 Rheumatology Patients Seek Guidance on CBD, Cannabis Products Orrin Troum, MD, suggests putting away any personal biases to learn how to best advise patients who are using or considering using cannabis, cannabidiol, or other cannabis-derived products.
  Medscape Medical News, February 25, 2022
• Troubling Questions Follow Closure of Sprawling Pain Clinic Chain Lags Medical Centers, one of California's largest chains of pain clinics, abruptly closed its doors amid a cloaked state investigation. Nine months later, patients are still in the dark about what happened.
  Kaiser Health News, February 22, 2022
• CES 2022 Wearable Neuromodulation Device Launched by Teen Siblings A teenage math prodigy designed a use-anywhere neuromodulation device to ease his sister's chronic pain.
  Medscape Medical News, January 07, 2022
• Candida Cleanses: Are Anti-Yeast Diets Just a Fad? Despite uncertain health claims, diets set on eliminating Candida from our guts are seemingly everywhere.
  Medscape Medical News, December 17, 2021
• LUPUS and CORA 2021 'Multimorbidity' More Commonly Seen in People With Lupus Two studies find that patients with either systemic or cutaneous disease have higher rates of multiple comorbidities, including those commonly reported before and those less frequently associated.
  Medscape Medical News, October 18, 2021
• US Arthritis Prevalence Continues Steady Rise, CDC Reports The latest survey data indicate that more Americans have arthritis than ever before, possibly because of an aging population, worsening individual health, and economic factors.
  Medscape Medical News, October 18, 2021
• AHS 2021 Chronic Headache Pain Linked to Suicide Attempts US veterans with chronic headache pain have a higher increased risk of attempting suicide than their counterparts with chronic neck or back pain, new research suggests.
  Medscape Medical News, June 15, 2021
• Neurologists Brace, Prepare for Long-COVID Fallout At least 1 in 3 patients are affected by post-acute neurologic sequelae of SARS-CoV-2 infection, and this is just the tip of the iceberg.
  Medscape Medical News, May 28, 2021
• DDW 2021 Severe IBS Symptoms Improved During COVID-19 Lockdowns IBS symptoms were expected to worsen, fueled by new stresses and pressures related to the nationwide lockdowns, but now that hypothesis has changed.
  Medscape Medical News, May 27, 2021
• AAPM 2021 Addiction Medication Promising for Chronic, Refractory Pain Used primarily for addiction, low-dose naltrexone may also turn out to be a useful treatment for refractory chronic pain, early research suggests.
  Medscape Medical News, April 30, 2021
• Experts Highlight Recent Breakthroughs in Psoriatic Arthritis An analysis by Alexis R. Ogdie, MD, of apremilast data from the CORRONA Registry was among several recent highlights in psoriatic arthritis.
  Medscape Medical News, March 30, 2021
• COVID-19 'Long-Haul' Symptoms Overlap With ME/CFS Long-term symptoms following acute COVID-19 illness were predictable based on prior experience with postviral fatigue syndromes including myalgic encephalomyelitis, experts say.
  Medscape Medical News, March 26, 2021
• Yes or No: The Future of Rheumatology Is Sub-Subspecialization It makes little sense for some rheumatologists to declare they're only going to see patients with psoriatic arthritis, or gout, or lupus.
  Medscape Medical News, March 16, 2021
• Opioids Prescribed for Diabetic Neuropathy Pain, Against Advice Inappropriate first-line opioid use was found in more than 40% of patients, dropping over time but without a concurrent rise in use of recommended chronic pain medications.
  Medscape Medical News, February 15, 2021
• Long-COVID Cases Rise as Stigma of Chronic Fatigue Taunts An estimated 5 million people could be headed toward a long-COVID diagnosis and their care is unclear. Investigators studying viral infection and chronic fatigue have ideas for rehabilitation.
  Medscape Medical News, January 14, 2021
• ACR 2020 Sjögren’s Symptom Clusters May Identify Treatment Options “Verification of features unique to each Sjögren’s cluster might provide guidance for future cluster-targeted therapy," said Sarah McCoy, MD, presenting at the American College of Rheumatology meeting.
  Medscape Medical News, November 13, 2020
• Lower TNF Inhibitor Efficacy in Women With Nonradiographic axSpA Women treated with a TNF inhibitor were 81% less likely than men to have a 40% or greater improvement on Assessment of Spondyloarthritis International Society (ASAS) response criteria by 1 year.
  Medscape Medical News, October 26, 2020