NEW YORK (Reuters Health) - A program aimed at easing stress with meditation and yoga may not be much help for people with the chronic-pain condition fibromyalgia, a recent study suggests. The study, ...

Research demonstrates that an individual’s response to chronic pain can be affected by their state of mind. More specifically, it appears that remaining calm and psychologically buoyant when dealing ...

Fibromyalgia is as elusive as diseases come. Characterized by constant body-wide pain with no identifiable cause, its existence is still held in contention by doctors. But for the 12 million mostly ...

For those living with a chronic illness, getting through the day is difficult enough. But what about when your friends, family and even your doctor don’t believe you? “For the longest period of time, ...

Globally, nearly 51% of patients with fibromyalgia had depression, and 47% experienced anxiety in a new meta-analysis. Additionally, there were trends for anxiety prevalence decreasing with age and ...

Mindfulness is a type of meditation in which you focus on being intensely aware of what you’re sensing and feeling in the moment, without interpretation or judgment. Practicing mindfulness involves ...