http://www.healthblognews.com Sun, 14 Mar 2010 10:49:32 +0000 http://wordpress.org/?v=2.8.4 en hourly 1 http://www.healthblognews.com/jazz-pharmaceuticals-announces-fda-acceptance-of-its-new-drug-application-for-jzp-6-sodium-oxybate-for-the-treatment-of-fibromyalgia/ http://www.healthblognews.com/jazz-pharmaceuticals-announces-fda-acceptance-of-its-new-drug-application-for-jzp-6-sodium-oxybate-for-the-treatment-of-fibromyalgia/#comments Sun, 14 Mar 2010 10:48:01 +0000 Healthblognews.com http://www.healthblognews.com/jazz-pharmaceuticals-announces-fda-acceptance-of-its-new-drug-application-for-jzp-6-sodium-oxybate-for-the-treatment-of-fibromyalgia/ Jazz Pharmaceuticals, Inc. (Nasdaq: JAZZ) announced that the U.S. Food and Drug Administration (FDA) has accepted for filing the New Drug Application (NDA) for JZP-6 (sodium oxybate) for the treatment of fibromyalgia. Based on a standard 10-month review, the target date for the FDA to complete its review of the NDA under the Prescription Drug User Fee Act (PDUFA) is October 11, 2010…

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]]> http://www.healthblognews.com/phase-3-study-of-subcutaneous-relistor-for-opioid-induced-constipation-for-chronic-non-cancer-pain-2/feed/ 0 http://www.healthblognews.com/forest-laboratories-inc-and-cypress-bioscience-inc-announce-positive-results-of-phase-iii-study-of-milnacipran-for-the-management-of-fibromyalgia-2/ http://www.healthblognews.com/forest-laboratories-inc-and-cypress-bioscience-inc-announce-positive-results-of-phase-iii-study-of-milnacipran-for-the-management-of-fibromyalgia-2/#comments Sun, 10 Jan 2010 15:53:27 +0000 Healthblognews.com http://www.healthblognews.com/forest-laboratories-inc-and-cypress-bioscience-inc-announce-positive-results-of-phase-iii-study-of-milnacipran-for-the-management-of-fibromyalgia-2/ Forest Laboratories, Inc. (NYSE: FRX) and Cypress Bioscience, Inc. (Nasdaq: CYPB) announced positive top-line results from a 1,025 patient, multicenter, double-blind, placebo-controlled phase III study of milnacipran for the management of fibromyalgia…

]]> http://www.healthblognews.com/forest-laboratories-inc-and-cypress-bioscience-inc-announce-positive-results-of-phase-iii-study-of-milnacipran-for-the-management-of-fibromyalgia-2/feed/ 0 http://www.healthblognews.com/fibromyalgia-study-hopes-to-decrease-pain-other-symptoms-2/ http://www.healthblognews.com/fibromyalgia-study-hopes-to-decrease-pain-other-symptoms-2/#comments Sun, 10 Jan 2010 15:53:27 +0000 Healthblognews.com http://www.healthblognews.com/fibromyalgia-study-hopes-to-decrease-pain-other-symptoms-2/ Researchers at the Indiana University School of Medicine seek 200 people with fibromyalgia to determine if motivational reminder telephone calls can prompt patients to exercise more regularly. Fibromyalgia is a disease that causes pain in the muscles and tissue surrounding joints in nearly 5 percent of the population…

]]> http://www.healthblognews.com/fibromyalgia-study-hopes-to-decrease-pain-other-symptoms-2/feed/ 0 http://www.healthblognews.com/fda-approves-fibromyalgia-drug-savellatm-milnacipran-hcl-a-selective-serotonin-and-norepinephrine-dual-reuptake-inhibitor-2/ http://www.healthblognews.com/fda-approves-fibromyalgia-drug-savellatm-milnacipran-hcl-a-selective-serotonin-and-norepinephrine-dual-reuptake-inhibitor-2/#comments Sun, 10 Jan 2010 15:53:27 +0000 Healthblognews.com http://www.healthblognews.com/fda-approves-fibromyalgia-drug-savellatm-milnacipran-hcl-a-selective-serotonin-and-norepinephrine-dual-reuptake-inhibitor-2/ Forest Laboratories, Inc. (NYSE: FRX) and Cypress Bioscience, Inc. (Nasdaq: CYPB) today announced that Savella(TM) (milnacipran HCl), a selective serotonin and norepinephrine dual reuptake inhibitor, was approved by the U.S. Food and Drug Administration (FDA) for the management of fibromyalgia…

]]> http://www.healthblognews.com/fda-approves-fibromyalgia-drug-savellatm-milnacipran-hcl-a-selective-serotonin-and-norepinephrine-dual-reuptake-inhibitor-2/feed/ 0 http://www.healthblognews.com/is-it-just-pain-or-is-it-fibromyalgia-2/ http://www.healthblognews.com/is-it-just-pain-or-is-it-fibromyalgia-2/#comments Sun, 10 Jan 2010 15:53:27 +0000 Healthblognews.com http://www.healthblognews.com/is-it-just-pain-or-is-it-fibromyalgia-2/ Months of constant pain, restless sleep and being drained of energy will make anyone seek help. Yet after the doctor has prescribed three different treatment regimens, the pain remains, the sleep is still restless and the body still lacks the proper energy to function. The patient becomes discouraged, as each attempt at healing the problem proves fruitless…

]]> http://www.healthblognews.com/is-it-just-pain-or-is-it-fibromyalgia-2/feed/ 0 http://www.healthblognews.com/pfizer-discontinues-development-of-two-phase-3-compounds-2/ http://www.healthblognews.com/pfizer-discontinues-development-of-two-phase-3-compounds-2/#comments Sun, 10 Jan 2010 15:53:27 +0000 Healthblognews.com http://www.healthblognews.com/pfizer-discontinues-development-of-two-phase-3-compounds-2/ Pfizer Inc announced today that, following a review of the development and commercial portfolios in the Primary Care Business Unit, it is terminating Phase 3 development programs for the investigational compounds esreboxetine for fibromyalgia and PD 332,334 for generalized anxiety disorder (GAD)…

]]> http://www.healthblognews.com/pfizer-discontinues-development-of-two-phase-3-compounds-2/feed/ 0 http://www.healthblognews.com/pilot-study-finds-inexpensive-drug-appears-to-relieve-fibromyalgia-pain-2/ http://www.healthblognews.com/pilot-study-finds-inexpensive-drug-appears-to-relieve-fibromyalgia-pain-2/#comments Sun, 10 Jan 2010 15:53:27 +0000 Healthblognews.com http://www.healthblognews.com/pilot-study-finds-inexpensive-drug-appears-to-relieve-fibromyalgia-pain-2/ For Tara Campbell, the onset of her fibromyalgia began slowly with repeated sore throats, fevers and fatigue. By the time she was diagnosed, a year later, she had become so debilitated by flulike symptoms and exhaustion that she often couldn’t get off the couch all day. “Fall, a year ago, I hit my very, very worst,” said Campbell, 39, of Walnut Creek, Calif…

]]> http://www.healthblognews.com/pilot-study-finds-inexpensive-drug-appears-to-relieve-fibromyalgia-pain-2/feed/ 0 http://www.healthblognews.com/what-is-fibromyalgia-what-causes-fibromyalgia-2/ http://www.healthblognews.com/what-is-fibromyalgia-what-causes-fibromyalgia-2/#comments Sun, 10 Jan 2010 15:53:27 +0000 Healthblognews.com http://www.healthblognews.com/what-is-fibromyalgia-what-causes-fibromyalgia-2/ The word fibromyalgia comes from the Greek myos meaning “muscle”, Greek algos meaning “pain“, and New Latin fibro meaning “fibrous tissue”. According to MediLexicon’s medical dictionary, fibromyalgia is “A common syndrome of chronic widespread soft-tissue pain accompanied by weakness, fatigue, and sleep disturbances; the cause is unknown.” Fibromyalgia is a common and chronic disorder…

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