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Your Membership will begin with the July 2008 issue of the Fibromyalgia Network Journal. Below is a detailed description of its contents.

• Parents and Grandparents: Getting the Most out of your Time
  • Parents and grandparents offer perspective on entertaining children without breaking your energy bank — more than 4,400 Members responded to this survey
    
  • Active and quiet activities to do with kids
    
  • Successful parenting strategies for staying connected and involved
    
  • Links to online resources for hours of play and interaction ideas
• New Meds in the Pipeline for Fibromyalgia
  • Update, drug classification, description, and FDA approval status of milnacipran, Xyrem (sodium oxybate), reboxetine, lacosamide, Rotigotine (Neupro)
• Ken’s Corner: Improving Balance and Mobility
  • Physical therapist Ken Lamm, P.T., of Tucson, AZ, offers simple exercises for your ankles, calves, and lower extremities to improve balance and mobility
• Maintaining Sleep Throughout the Night
  • Andrew Krystal, M.D., and Thomas Roth, Ph.D., discuss a completely different treatment approach for keeping people with insomnia-like symptoms asleep for a full eight hours
    
  • Your sleep-promoting and wake-promoting systems
    
  • The body's rhythmic production of histamine, orexin, serotonin and norepinephrine
    
• What is Your Doctor Being Told About Fibromyalgia?
  
  • Highlights from a Pfizer-sponsored webcast featuring Lesley Arnold, M.D., explains what fibromyalgia is, possible causes, and current treatments
• Looking at the Brain
  • A revealing look a what brain imaging is telling us about fibromyalgia
    
  • Roland Staud, M.D., and his colleagues at the University of Florida in Gainesville, study brain activity patterns and pain processing using functional MRI
    
  • Simple self-help strategies that reduce your pain load
• Treatment News
  • Update on leaky gut, inflammatory cytokines, zinc and magnesium
• Q&A with the Experts
  • Leslie Arnold, M.D., explains why more women than men are diagnosed with fibromyalgia
  • Manuel Martinez-Lavin, M.D., gives reasons why fibromyalgia patients may experience rapid heart beat or palpitations
  • Raloxifen, breast cancer risks, and foods that worsen your sleep
• Sleep Findings Correlate with Symptoms
  • Benjamin Natelson, M.D., and Ron Chervin, M.D., identify abnormal sleep patterns linked to fibromyalgia pain and chronic fatigue syndrome
• Eliminate the Foods that are Making You Sick
  
  • Joel S. Edman, DSc, FACN, a clinical nutritionist, focuses on the proper diet for fibromyalgia patients
    
  • How your body adversely responds to food allergies
    
  • A step-by-step approach to identify foods that cause you pain
    
  • Shopping tips and resources to find a practitioner
• The Dr. Crook Connection to Nutrition
  
  • Well ahead of his time, William G. Crook, M.D., was a pioneer in yeast-related health problems and nutritional advice
• Therapies that Work
  
  • A Tomato-Inspired Idea - identifying food allergies
    
  • Benefits Outweigh Food Restrictions - eliminating yeast overgrowth

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