We can’t not celebrate Health Literacy Awareness Month! It has always been one of FindMeCure’s missions to raise awareness about healthcare innovation and give patients the means to make informed decisions about their treatment in a comprehensible and down-to-earth way. We believe that knowledge is power and we would like to see empowered patient communities full of people taking their…
Fatigue is a common symptom of many of the diseases and conditions we talk about here on the FindMeCure blog. From arthritis and IBD to myasthenia gravis, a feeling of muscle weakness and lack of energy is characteristic of an underlying problem that needs to be properly addressed. When we talk about fatigue as a symptom, however, we need to…
We’ve come a long way as a society since women were treated for hysteria and since labour was the most dangerous thing for a woman because doctors didn’t have the necessary understanding of the female reproductive system. Even in our day and age, however, bikini medicine is costing women their lives and even when we do recognise a danger for…
Chronic pain rarely comes on its own and is most often indicative of an underlying disease even if no other symptoms are immediately present. Accompanied by inflammation or, in many cases, anxiety and depression, chronic pain can require a complex treatment or a way to address it that doesn’t negatively interfere with other medications. Because of how hard it is…
Awareness months dedicated to certain conditions and diseases allow us at FindMeCure to become advocates for change by spreading the word about less understood health issues. Underresearched and thus undertreated, with no known cause or too many variables and side effects to treatment, these diseases keep healthcare providers with their hands tied, unable to help patients as much as they…
If you don’t trust diets to help relieve your Crohn’s or colitis symptoms after proper medicine couldn’t do it, we completely understand. Sometimes, for some people medication doesn’t lead to enough improvement. And this, among other things, is why clinical trials are continuously searching for a cure but if not a cure, at least a better, more efficient treatment with…
