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30 March, 2024

Psychedelics For Chronic Pain: Exploring Therapeutic Potentials

The following is a summary of “Role of Psychedelics in the Management of Chronic Pain,” published in the March 2024 issue of Pain by Robinson, et al.

30 March, 2024

Awareness Day Event For Fibromyalgia And ME/CFS

May 12 is the annual Awareness Day for people living with Fibromyalgia and ME/CFS. The City of Gold Coast invites anyone in the community that has an interest in these conditions to join them on Wednesday 15 May to celebrate this Awareness Day.

30 March, 2024

An Ally’s Call To Action: The LGBTQ+ Elders With (Dis)abilities Demands Collective Liberation

Terri Wilder, a tireless HIV/Aging Policy Advocate with Sage Advocacy & Services for LGBTQ+ Elders, bears witness to these harsh realities. “If one thing goes wrong in terms of my income, if they go up on my rent, even a couple of dollars, I’m that close to being homeless because I’m so sick I can’t work,” she shares, recounting the precarious situation of a trans man she knows in Minneapolis. Diagnosed with the debilitating Myalgic Encephalomyelitis/Chronic Fatigue Syndrome (ME/CFS), he relies heavily on a fragile patchwork of public assistance programs – a lifeline that could unravel at any moment, leaving him on the brink of homelessness.

29 March, 2024

Long COVID’s Lingering Effects

Four years after the COVID-19 stay-at-home order in Illinois, Illinois Public Media is diving deep into the persistent battle against the disease's long-term effects, known as long COVID.

29 March, 2024

Your Good Health: Mobility Problems Can Happen To Anyone

While it is true that not exercising can lead to poor tolerance, most of the time, it isn’t a person’s fault that they have difficulty with mobility.

29 March, 2024

«Once The Disease Is Recognized As Disabling, Patients Have The Right To Compensation» – Targatocn.it

The Italian government has taken a significant step towards providing better care and support for individuals suffering from fibromyalgia, a chronic and disabling disease. Thanks to the efforts of the Piedmont Health Councilor, Luigi Genesio Icardi, a new law has been approved that grants direct access to care and therapies for fibromyalgia patients throughout Italy.

28 March, 2024

Literary Twofer Finds Characters ‘In Sickness And In Health’ And On ‘Yom Kippur In A Gym’

Nora Gold, the prize-winning Canadian author of novels and short stories and the founder and editor-in-chief of JewishFiction.net, has just published what Vegas aficionados call a twofer – that is two for the price of one, in this case two novellas, In Sickness and In Health, and Yom Kippur in a Gym in one volume (Guernica Editions). At first glance, the novellas could not seem more different. In Sickness and In Health is the account of a few days in the life of a college professor who is suffering a bout of a fugue state that doctors can’t diagnose but that she believes may be Chronic Fatigue Syndrome – and that may or may not be related to having childhood epilepsy, a condition which she has hidden from her husband.

28 March, 2024

‘There Must Be A Persistent Antigen’: NIH Researcher Discusses New PI-ME/CFS Data

A recent NIH study of post-infectious myalgic encephalomyelitis/chronic fatigue syndrome suggests that the condition is a “distinct entity,” with somatic and cognitive issues that are centrally mediated.

28 March, 2024

Rhode Island Comedian’s New TV Special Shines A Light On Chronic Illness

Doug Ouimette’s new comedy special, “I Can’t Stand Stand-Up Comedy,” explores his wife’s experience with chronic fatigue syndrome and how the family finds laughter through the pain.

27 March, 2024

Fibromyalgia Should Be Officially Recognised: Health Council

Fibromyalgia, a chronic health condition in which victims experience pain and tenderness throughout the body, as well as fatigue and trouble sleeping, should be recognised as a health issue, the Dutch health council says.