The Top 10 Resources on Fibromyalgia

Expert-approved health links for the Fibromyalgia WisdomCard

This website was reviewed by:

Howard Krein, M.D., Ph.D.

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Fibromyalgia

emedicine.medscape.com

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Resource Description:

Overview: Fibromyalgia (FM) typically presents in young or middle-aged females as persistent widespread pain, stiffness, fatigue, disrupted unrefreshing sleep, and cognitive difficulties, often accompanied by multiple other unexplained symptoms, anxiety and/or depression, and functional impairment of daily ...

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Expert review of this website

Howard Krein, M.D., Ph.D.

This is often one of the first places that doctors go themselves to brush up on conditions and treatments. eMedicine offers great summaries that round up all the latest research and opinion into one article for review. The only drawback of this site is that many people find the medical jargon a bit hard to understand. If you like what the OrganizedWisdom team has found here, but there are parts you'd like explained further, share it with your family doctor and see if you can get more details from him or her.

Doctor WisdomCard: Dr. Howard Krein Bio:Dr. Howard Krein is Chief Medical Officer at OrganizedWisdom Health where he oversees the company's quality standards and physician review program. Dr. Krein is Assistant Professor of Otolaryngology: Head & Neck Surgery at Thomas Jefferson University and a founding partner and co-director of Jefferson's Facial Aesthetic and Reconstructive Center. He is part of an exclusive group of physicians with two doctorates, receiving his M.D. from Thomas Jefferson Medical College in Philadelphia and a Ph.D. in Cell and Developmental Biology from UMDNJ/Robert Wood Johnson Medical School. Dr. Krein completed internships in both Emergency Medicine and General Surgery, a residency in Otolaryngology: Head and Neck Surgery at Thomas Jefferson University Hospital in Philadelphia and a Fellowship in Facial Plastic and Reconstructive Surgery at Medical College of Virginia in Richmond Virginia. He earned his Bachelor's degree in Biology and a Master's degree in Neuroscience from Rutgers University.