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Clinical trial to examine new tools to improve psychological treatment for young people with depression

Some studies have shown alarming numbers of young people suffering from symptoms of depression.

6 Oct 2022

Study reveals immune characteristics of long-COVID

Researchers perform antibody profiling against SARS-CoV-2, several endemic pathogens, as well as vaccine antigens among rheumatic disease patients.

2 Oct 2022

Psychological distress before COVID-19 infection associated with increased risk of long COVID

Psychological distress, including depression, anxiety, worry, perceived stress, and loneliness, before COVID-19 infection was associated with an increased risk of long COVID, according to researchers at Harvard T.H. Chan School of Public Health.

7 Sep 2022

Integrated community care approach can offer solution to struggling rheumatology services, experts say

As patients wait up to a decade for the diagnosis of life-impacting rheumatic conditions, experts argue that ingrained pressures facing NHS rheumatology services can, and should, be eased with an integrated community care/secondary care approach, rather than a reliance on secondary care alone.

3 Aug 2022

Boost now or wait? Many wonder how best to ride out covid’s next wave

Gwyneth Paige didn't want to get vaccinated against covid-19 at first. With her health issues — hypertension, fibromyalgia, asthma — she wanted to see how other people fared after the shots. Then her mother got colon cancer.

18 Jul 2022

How Pfizer won the pandemic, reaping outsize profit and influence

The grinding two-plus years of the pandemic have yielded outsize benefits for one company — Pfizer — making it both highly influential and hugely profitable as covid-19 continues to infect tens of thousands of people and kill hundreds each day.

5 Jul 2022

A cancer patient who had SARS-CoV-2 for over eight months

In a recent study posted to the medRxiv* pre-print server, researchers in Israel described the case of a severely immunocompromised cancer patient who developed a chronic severe acute respiratory syndrome coronavirus 2 (SARS-CoV-2) infection.

28 Jun 2022

Profound neuroinflammation associated with long COVID

Around 36 to 53% of coronavirus disease 2019 (COVID-19) patients develop persistent chronic symptoms, often referred to as long COVID or PASC.

7 Jun 2022

Personal construct therapy found to be effective in reducing depression in women with fibromyalgia

Fibromyalgia is a rheumatic disease of unknown origin, which is characterized by chronic pain and often accompanied by symptoms of depression. It mainly affects women, and there is no cure, but various treatments can help relieve the symptoms.

9 May 2022

Study suggests history of childhood traumas may increase the risk of long COVID

In a new study, researchers found childhood trauma to be a risk factor for post-coronavirus disease.

25 Feb 2022

‘Injections, injections, injections’: Troubling questions follow closure of sprawling pain clinic chain

On May 13 of last year, the cellphones of thousands of California residents undergoing treatment for chronic pain lit up with a terse text message: "Due to unforeseen circumstances, Lags Medical Centers will be closing effective May 19, 2021."

22 Feb 2022

Study characterizes brain changes in adolescents affected by juvenile fibromyalgia

Juvenile fibromyalgia is a syndrome characterized by a chronic pain affecting the whole body. It also causes fatigue as well as sleep and mood disorders.

17 Feb 2022

Study explores individuals’ experiences with long COVID

The current study sought to present the actual face of the condition in experiential terms.

25 Jan 2022

Risk factors for "long-haul" COVID in people with rheumatic diseases identified

A new study by researchers at Hospital for Special Surgery (HSS) in New York City demonstrates over half of patients with rheumatic diseases who contracted COVID-19 during the pandemic and completed a COVID-19 survey, experienced so-called "long-haul" COVID, or prolonged symptoms of the infection, including loss of taste or smell, muscle aches and difficulty concentrating, for one month or longer.

7 Nov 2021

Frequency domain optical imaging could reliably identify lupus arthritis and track disease progression

Systemic lupus erythematosus (SLE), commonly referred to as simply "lupus", is an autoimmune disorder where the body's immune system attacks healthy tissue.

26 Oct 2021

Online searches for arthritis symptoms increase among UK residents

Online searches for symptoms of arthritis and osteoarthritis increase with residents throughout the UK.

4 Oct 2021

"FibroCOVID" - An emerging entity

In a recent study, a team of researchers aimed to investigate the prevalence and predictors of fibromyalgia in patients who recovered from COVID-19.

31 Aug 2021

Algorithmic clustering by pain distribution may help personalize chronic pain management

Pain distribution as reported on a body map, on its own, can be used to assign patients to distinct subgroups that are associated with differences in pain intensity, pain quality, pain impact and clinically-relevant three-month outcomes, according to a new study published this week in the open-access journal PLOS ONE by Benedict Alter of University of Pittsburgh, US, and colleagues.

4 Aug 2021

Inventor gender gap partially responsible for many missing female-focused inventions

Necessity is the father of invention, but where is its mother? According to a new study published in Science, fewer women hold biomedical patents, leading to a reduced number of patented technologies designed to address problems affecting women.

7 Jul 2021

New mobile app could be useful in assessing symptom severity in chronic fatigue syndrome

Chronic fatigue syndrome / myalgic encephalomyelitis (CFS/ME) is a disabling disease, in which people have great difficulties in carrying out their daily activities.

1 Jul 2021

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Latest Fibromyalgia News and Research

Clinical trial to examine new tools to improve psychological treatment for young people with depression

Study reveals immune characteristics of long-COVID

Psychological distress before COVID-19 infection associated with increased risk of long COVID

Integrated community care approach can offer solution to struggling rheumatology services, experts say

Boost now or wait? Many wonder how best to ride out covid’s next wave

How Pfizer won the pandemic, reaping outsize profit and influence

A cancer patient who had SARS-CoV-2 for over eight months

Profound neuroinflammation associated with long COVID

Personal construct therapy found to be effective in reducing depression in women with fibromyalgia

Study suggests history of childhood traumas may increase the risk of long COVID

‘Injections, injections, injections’: Troubling questions follow closure of sprawling pain clinic chain

Study characterizes brain changes in adolescents affected by juvenile fibromyalgia

Study explores individuals’ experiences with long COVID

Risk factors for "long-haul" COVID in people with rheumatic diseases identified

Frequency domain optical imaging could reliably identify lupus arthritis and track disease progression

Online searches for arthritis symptoms increase among UK residents

"FibroCOVID" - An emerging entity

Algorithmic clustering by pain distribution may help personalize chronic pain management

Inventor gender gap partially responsible for many missing female-focused inventions

New mobile app could be useful in assessing symptom severity in chronic fatigue syndrome

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Professor Nancy Ip: Pioneering New Paths in Neurodegenerative Therapy

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