Recent press reports have framed these deaths as signaling a "US-style opioid epidemic" caused by a medicine that "destroys lives". This is not an equitable comparison, givenhundreds of thousandsof Americans have died due to opioids. These reports may only serve to cause undue panic about the...
Even though it’s often grouped with rheumatic diseases like arthritis and lupus, fibromyalgia isn’t considered to be a disease of inflammation, or a joint or muscle disorder. It’s also not an autoimmune disorder — a condition in which the body’s immune system mistakenly attacks healthy ti...