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Last Sunday, during our monthly face-to-face support group meeting, Colorado Fibromyalgia Network member, Candy Homestead, shared a letter that she had written to her family. Candy, like a lot of other fibromyalgia patients, struggles with acceptance f… more »
Member of Colo Fibro support group shares personal letter
Categories: Fibromyalgia, Depression
Permalink Navy to Experiment with New PTSD Blocking Technique
Last April, a story appeared in WIRED magazine about Pentagon doctors at Walter Reed Army Medical Center curing PTSD with an injection of local anesthetic into a bundle of nerves in the neck. Called a "stellate ganglion block" (STB), the trials appeare… more »
Categories: Fibromyalgia, PTSD
Permalink Benlysta Approved for Lupus
On March 9th, the FDA approved Benlysta for treatment of lupus. Benlysta is the first new drug to be approved for systemic lupus erythematosus since 1955, and is designed to inhibit the maturation of B lymphocytes, the white blood cells which attack no… more »