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7,000 deaths a year due to bad handwriting? Save yours!

Well, Time Mag­a­zine reports that the National Acad­e­mies of Science’s Insti­tute of Med­i­cine says that’s the fig­ure, any­way. Doc­tors’ sloppy hand­writ­ing kills more than 7,000 peo­ple annu­ally. It’s a shock­ing sta­tis­tic, and, accord­ing to a July 2006 report from the National Acad­e­mies of Science’s Insti­tute of Med­i­cine (IOM), pre­ventable med­ica­tion mis­takes also injure more than […]

January 19, 2007   Posted in: From the news  11 Comments

Researchers say pain from fibromyalgia is real

Not that it’s news to those of us who have it, but it’s good to be val­i­dated! Fibromyal­gia often has been mis­di­ag­nosed as arthri­tis or even a psy­cho­log­i­cal issue. Increas­ingly, though, the sci­en­tific knowl­edge about fibromyal­gia is grow­ing, and a new paper from the Uni­ver­sity of Michi­gan Health Sys­tem says there are “over­whelm­ing data” that […]

December 1, 2006   Posted in: Fibromyalgia, From the news, Neurology, Pain  11 Comments

Stress during pregnancy may lead to increased risk of fibromyalgia for baby girls

From a Uni­ver­sity of Pitts­burgh School of Med­i­cine Press Release about find­ings being pre­sented at the Inter­na­tional Con­gress of Neu­roen­docrinol­ogy June 19–22, 2006: Stress­ful or trau­matic events expe­ri­enced dur­ing preg­nancy can have long-lasting effects on the fetus, yet these effects may not become appar­ent until many years later, accord­ing to a study sug­gest­ing that girls […]

June 29, 2006   Posted in: Chronic Fatigue Syndrome, Fibromyalgia, From the news  No Comments

Music ‘can reduce chronic pain’

From BBC News via the Net-Gold list: Research has con­firmed lis­ten­ing to music can have a sig­nif­i­cant pos­i­tive impact on per­cep­tion of chronic pain. US researchers tested the effect of music on 60 patients who had endured years of chronic pain. Those who lis­tened to music reported a cut in pain lev­els of up to […]

June 6, 2006   Posted in: From the news  No Comments

Dyspareunia — painful sex

Dys­pare­u­nia is one of the com­mon symp­toms of fibromyal­gia, or as a co-existing prob­lem. I don’t usu­ally look at Wired for this kind of thing, but the arti­cle When Sex Is a Pain has some good ideas for deal­ing with dyspareunia.

May 26, 2006   Posted in: From the news  No Comments