In the News
Keep up to date with the latest news articles from around the world.
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People With Chronic Fatigue Have Been Misunderstood For Decades: Reputable Researcher Offers Surprising Advice To Those Struggling With The Illness
Chronic fatigue syndrome has often been overlooked by doctors and researchers. Geneticist Chris Ponting has revolutionised our understanding of the disease – and he has a remarkable message for those suffering from it.
Women Suffer More Pain Than Men Across The Whole Body, Major Global Study Finds
Researchers looked at pain around the world and across the human lifespan, finding steepest rise happens before age 55.
Beyond Pilot Projects: Why Canada Needs Care Pathways For Chronic Inflammatory Diseases
At a recent Economic Club of Canada event, Scaling What Works: Advancing Healthcare Excellence Across Canada, two comments stayed with me long after discussion ended.
"It Will Be Challenging On My Body": How Miranda Hart's ME Impacts Her On The Celebrity Traitors
Miranda Hart is set to make her much-anticipated return to TV screens as a contestant on season two of The Celebrity Traitors. Along with other famous faces, including Bella Ramsey and Romesh Ranganathan, she'll compete as a Traitor or Faithful, battling to survive Round Table banishments and nightly murders. As she does so, Miranda will also be dealing with an ongoing chronic illness: myalgic encephalomyelitis.
The Hidden Harms Of Medical Gaslighting
Researchers are leading efforts to better support patients with difficult-to-diagnose conditions.
Untargeted Plasma Lipidomics Reveals Alterations In Steroid And Lipid Metabolism In Fibromyalgia
In this study, an untargeted lipidomics approach was applied to comprehensively profile plasma lipid species in Fibromyalgia patients and healthy controls.
Gut Microbiome Variation Across Fibromyalgia Symptom Severity
Growing evidence suggests that alterations in the gut microbiota may contribute to FM, but findings across cohorts remain inconsistent, and their relationship with symptom severity has not been characterized.
Sex-Specific Mechanisms Of Chronic Pain
Rather than clinging to the historical standard that simply described the female bias in pain symptoms, these studies begin to explain why females experience heightened pain, paving the path for mechanism-based precision therapeutics.
Video: New Treatment is Available For Fibromyalgia
A new treatment for fibromyalgia has been approved by the FDA for the first time in over 15 years. (The video is basically an ad for the new drug Tonmya).
People With Chronic Fatigue Have Been Misunderstood For Decades: Reputable Researcher Offers Surprising Advice To Those Struggling With The Illness
Chronic fatigue syndrome has often been overlooked by doctors and researchers. Geneticist Chris Ponting has revolutionised our understanding of the disease – and he has a remarkable message for those suffering from it.
Miranda Hart Reunites With Her Miranda Co-Stars Amid Health Battle As They Celebrate Patricia Hodge's 80th Birthday
Miranda Hart reunited with her co-stars amid her health battle as they celebrated Patricia Hodge's 80th birthday. The actress, 53, continues to live with the 'invisible' effects of ME/chronic fatigue syndrome after contracting Lyme disease.
Video: Why Saying 'You Don't Look Sick' Is Not A Compliment (Enable: The Disability Podcast)
In this episode of "Enable: The Disability Podcast," co-hosts Geoff "DeafGeoff" Herbert and Kurt Hower discuss how so-called "invisible disabilities" are treated by others, how to be respectful and helpful, the spoon theory, and the unseen struggles of people with arthritis, autoimmune disorders, chronic illness, hearing loss, and other different abilities.