This syndrome is often accompanied by fatigue, bowel disturbances, and urinary difficulty. Fibromyalgia can affect your daily activity, your sleep, and even your thinking when you're worn out and experiencing brain fog. That's a term used by Henri Roca, MD, Medical Director at Greenwich Hospital's Center for Integrative Medicine in Cos Cob, Connecticut.

( Wiley-Blackwell ) Researchers from Utrecht University who studied the effect of negative emotions on pain perception in women with and without fibromyalgia found that anger and sadness amplified pain equally in both groups. Full findings are now online and will publish in the October print issue of Arthritis Care Research, a journal of the American College of Rheumatology.

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Since the first year of the Central Texas Women in Business Expo, emcee Ann Farris has seen the event mature and grow each year along with the crowd that Wednesday included several returnees at the Killeen Civic and Conference Center.

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