• Impaired memory function in FMS
- Expert advice by Graham McDougall, Ph.D., RN, director of a cognitive enhancement program used for seniors nationwide
- Research indicates the severity of memory problems
- Role of chronic pain
- How is sleep related to cognition?
- Drugs to avoid
- Self-help strategies that work
- Over 10 free resources to improve your memory
• Are temporomandibular dysfunction (TMD) and fibromyalgia syndrome (FMS) related conditions?
- Research on overlapping prevalence
- Comparison of pain characteristics
- Preliminary results of an ongoing genetic study
- A specific gene that alters pain sensitivity may be responsible
- Possible link between sleep and anxiety, and a gene that regulates pain
- Implications for the effectiveness of opioids
• Medications for Irritable Bowel Syndrome (IBS)
- Role of small intestine bacterial overgrowth (SIBO)
- Diagnostic test and a medication to consider for SIBO
- Zelnorm (tegaserod): How it works and why it is used
• Rationale achieving more pain relief
- Are the pain amplifying receptors (NMDAs) in your spinal cord defective?
- Results of a drug trial using dextromethorphan (DEX) in FMS
- Medications that enhance pain relief when taken together
• Serotonin Syndrome (SS)
- Why you should know about it
- Caused by negative drug reactions
- Symptoms to beware of, drugs that can cause SS, and who is at risk
• Lunesta (eszopiclone), a new medication for sleep
• Tension and Migraine Headaches
- Expert advice from headache clinic director David Biondi, D.O.
- Difference between the two diagnoses (tension and migraine)
- How migraines develop
- The seven phases of a migraine
- Tension-type headaches and possible causes
- Susceptibility factors
- Treatment options and the importance of prevention
- Is sumatriptan (Imitrex) the best drug for you?
- What are the benefits of Amerge, Replax and Frova?
- Survey results from patients: Top drug and nondrug therapies
- Self-help advice from FMS patients on how to manage headaches
• Q&A with input from three experienced physicians
• Which symptom should be treated first? Two doctors explain their rationale for treating FMS/CFS
• Physicians in the Spotlight: treatment approaches used by four outstanding doctors
• FREE articles on headaches and SIBO (details provided to members about how to receive them)

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