Archive for 'Organizations'
Fibro Feelings – World Arthritis Day
What is Fibro Feelings? Last Friday was World Arthritis Day, so I donned myself in blue and attended a two hour event put on by my local Arthritis Foundation. Their director of programs and services, who I’ve known for years, told me I looked great and was glowing. She didn’t even know I was pregnant, [...]
Posted: October 15th, 2012 under Fibro Feelings, Organizations.
Tags: Arthritis Foundation, Back, Pain, World Arthritis Day
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Arthritis Foundation Conference 2012
As promised I’m bringing you more from the half-day Arthritis Foundation conference that I went to last month. One bit of good news, if you have arthritis, is that there are lots of Phase III drug trials going on now. This means that hopefully there will be new arthritis medicines on the market soon. A [...]
Posted: August 2nd, 2012 under Organizations.
Tags: Arthritis, Arthritis Foundation, Posture
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Treat to Target Care
One of the most interesting topics discussed at the conference my local Arthritis Foundation office held was “Treat to Target” (T2T). Dr. Stanford Peng explained that it is a way of focusing the care and treatment of a condition on a specific target. As a patient, it seems like an obvious way to map care, [...]
Posted: July 26th, 2012 under Organizations.
Tags: Arthritis, Arthritis Foundation, Dr. Stanford Peng, Gout, T2T, Treat to Target
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Senate Hearing on Pain
Earlier this year, the US Senate Health, Education, Labor and Pensions (HELP) Committee held the first ever senate hearing on pain. Sadly, most committee members were not present. Four doctors and one executive director of a nonprofit organization gave excellent expert testimonies, both verbal and written. Shortly before the hearing began, Jan Chambers from the [...]
Posted: June 21st, 2012 under Organizations.
Tags: Dr. Daniel Clauw, NFMCPA, Pain, Pain in America: Exploring Challenges to Relief, Research
Comments: 2