Canadian guidelines will help improve fibromyalgia treatment

December 2012

New Canadian guidelines will help improve fibromyalgia treatment.

There's no "gold standard" for treating fibromyalgia.

Recommend choosing a treatment based on the patient's most troublesome symptoms and other comorbid conditions.

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Table of Contents

Cardiology whether ALL patients with coronary artery disease should take a beta-blocker
Anticoagulants change in the brand name for dabigatran from Pradax to Pradaxa
Anticoagulants more about bleeding with Pradaxa (dabigatran)
Practice misleading claims about the Hemocode test for food intolerance
Diabetes debate about whether diabetes patients who don't use insulin benefit from monitoring their blood glucose
Diabetes two new tablet strengths of Januvia (sitagliptin)
Gout rev up promotion of Uloric (febuxostat) for managing gout
Compounding new scrutiny of pharmacy compounding
Vaccines New recommendations will bring more focus on proper vaccine storage
Fibromyalgia Canadian guidelines will help improve fibromyalgia treatment
Interactions PPIs with methotrexate can lead to methotrexate toxicity
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