• Building your self-esteem
- Expert advice from David A. Williams, Ph.D., Katrina Berne, Ph.D., and Carol Burckhardt, RN, Ph.D.
- How to overcome four common scenarios faced by fibromyalgia/chronic fatigue syndrome (FMS/CFS) patients
- Assessing your self-expectations
- Focusing on your strengths
- Setting realistic goals
- How to regain control of your life
• Highlights of chronic fatige syndrome (CFS) research conference
- CFS and fibromyalgia (FMS) are overlapping disorders
- Debunking misconceptions about CFS
- How do physicians rate the importance of treating fatigue?
- Symptom-driven treatments (Atenolol, Florinef, ProAmatine, Neurontin and others)
- Defect in the body’s handling of viruses
- Role of reactive chemicals (free radicals) in FMS/CFS
- Potential involvement of nitric oxide and recommended treatments
- Summary of how various findings may cause pain, sleep disorder and cognitive impairment
- Patient-focused article, edited by seven researchers to ensure accuracy
• Modern technology paves way for genetic profiling; preliminary results in CFS/FMS revealed
• Relationship between gender, age and pain
- What is wind-up, and how can it be used to measure pain?
- Role of the Diffuse Noxious Inhibitory Control (DNIC) system in regulating pain
- Influence of gender and age on wind-up and the DNIC system function
• Staphylococcal vaccine therapy
- Drug trial using this therapy for FMS/CFS patients
- How the vaccine may be working, including the role of glia cells and cytokines
- Why this therapy might help some patients but not others
- Patient-focused article, edited by Olof Zachrisson, M.D., Ph.D., to ensure accuracy
• What is interval training, and can it benefit you?
• The endometriosis-FMS/CFS link, and new study shows impact of elevated cytokine
• How do wind-up, DNIC and tender points measure up?
• Using wind-up to test the effect of fentanyl (an opioid) in FMS patients

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