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Welcome to the ArthritisSupport.com Website!
ProHealth’s ArthritisSupport.com is your home for
Arthritis
news, support, and comprehensive nutritional solutions. We attract over 5 million visitors a year because we are a patient owned company that understands your needs, and our goal is to empower you to take control of your health.
Patient Owned
The ProHealth story begins back in August 1981, when at the age of 23, Rich Carson woke up one day with severe flu-like symptoms. Rich saw a specialist who ran tests for strep throat and mononucleosis, but the results for both tests were negative. Sometime later, while still feeling extremely ill, Rich spoke with an internist who informed him that he may be suffering from either a chronic cytomegalovirus or a chronic Epstein-Barr virus infection. Pointed in the right direction, Rich telephoned every researcher he could find to investigate his illness, which has since come to be known as Chronic Fatigue Syndrome.
By 1986, Rich was spending two or three hours a day on the telephone with CFS patients and researchers, and started one of the first and largest CFS support groups in the country. Rich’s determination to help CFS patients soon lead to the creation of ProHealth, Inc. Founded in 1988, the company’s mission is to provide a comprehensive resource for people with Chronic Fatigue Syndrome and Fibromyalgia.
An important part of Rich’s treatment plan includes alternative therapies that greatly relieve many of his symptoms. The Health Resource Catalog was published to share with other patients the supplements he found to be most effective. Additionally, Rich realized the Internet is a great way to spread useful, up-to-the-minute information to the many thousands of CFS and FM sufferers worldwide, and so ImmuneSupport.com was created.
Commerce with Compassion
ProHealth knows that research is the key to finding cures for CFS and FM, and it is our mission to help fund important research studies. Since 1988, ProHealth has raised and donated over $2.61 million to organizations dedicated to researching CFS and FM and finding effective treatments. We have proudly made contributions to Action for ME, the CFIDS Association of America, Inc., the National Fibromyalgia Association (NFA), and the National Fibromyalgia Research Association, to name a few. When you shop with ProHealth you support research, since a portion of the profits from each purchase you make goes toward funding CFS and FM research and advocacy.
Your Health Resource
ArthritisSupport.com brings you daily research and treatment news, exclusive interviews with leading physicians, traditional and alternative treatment options, and symptom control advice. ArthritisSupport.com continually grows its information library to keep you informed of all your options, and help you successfully manage your most troubling symptoms and cope with the many issues you face.
From our free weekly Treatment & Research bulletins, advocacy event postings, support group listings, doctor directories, and over 300 nutritional supplements and specialty formulas, ArthritisSupport.com is dedicated to serving you in your quest for better health and wellbeing.
10 Reasons to Choose ProHealth!
Our mission is to empower people to take control of their health by providing comprehensive health resources, current treatment information, quality health products and advocating for the rights of the patient.
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Scientific Advisory Board
ProHealth.com and ImmuneSupport.com are very proud to have the following esteemed physicians - leaders in CFS and FM research and treatment - on our Scientific Advisory Board. Their commitment and hard work on behalf of patients is leading us closer to knowing the causes and finding the cures for these devastating illnesses.
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Robert Bennett, M.D., Ph.D.
A leading fibromyalgia researcher and clinician, Robert Bennett, M.D., Ph.D., is Professor of Medicine at Oregon Health and Science University (OHSU) in Portland, Oregon. He was Chairman of the Division of Arthritis and Rheumatic Diseases at OHSU from 1976-2000. Dr. Bennett is currently the Vice-President of the International Myopain Society. His clinical research interests include fibromyalgia, systemic lupus erythematosus, and overlap syndromes. He is/has been on the editorial boards of Pain, Arthritis and Rheumatism, Geriatrics, the Journal of Musculoskeletal Pain and the Journal of Functional Syndromes. He is a past president of the American College of Rheumatology, Western Region. He is cited in Best Doctors in America, Who's Who in America, Who's Who in Science and Engineering, and Who's Who in the World.
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Charles Lapp, M.D.
Charles Lapp, M.D., is nationally recognized and sought after as a medical consultant regarding Chronic Fatigue Syndrome (CFS) and fibromyalgia (FM). He is Co-Chairman of the Clinical Affairs Committee for the American Association for CFS, medical advisor to the CFIDS Association of America, and a board member of the American FM Syndrome Association. Dr. Lapp is currently Director of the Hunter-Hopkins Center, P.A., Medical Consultations, in Charlotte, North Carolina, where he is a practicing physician, and is also Assistant Consulting Professor at Duke University Medical Center in Durham, North Carolina. Dr. Lapp publishes regularly on important issues in the diagnosis, treatment and management of CFS and FM, including the role of exercise, laboratory tests, chemical exposure, childbearing, management of CFS in children, disability, the role of Epstein-Barr virus in CFS, and detection of mycoplasmas, among other crucial factors and issues relating to these debilitating diseases.
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William Maguire, M.D., Ph.D.
William Maguire, M.D., Ph.D., was a Pulmonary and Critical Care Fellow at Beth Israel and Brigham and Women's Hospital at Harvard University. He studied at Albert Einstein College of Medicine, where he earned his M.D. He is currently in private practice, specializing in critical care and pulmonary disease. Dr. Maguire also has a Ph.D. in pharmacology from New York Medical College. Dr. Maguire sees a shift toward the emphasis of prevention in the health care system today and believes that the news and media attention given to research on vitamins, herbs, and nutritional supplements is making a tremendous impact on attitudes towards health care.
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Kenny De Meirleir, M.D., Ph.D.
Kenny De Meirleir, M.D., Ph.D., is professor of physiology and medicine at Vrije Universiteit Brussel in Belgium, where he is also director of the Human Performance Laboratory and Fatigue Clinic. Since 1990, Dr. De Meirleir has seen thousands of patients struggling with chronic fatigue at the university-based clinic in Brussels. He is a member of the board of directors of the American Association for Chronic Fatigue Syndrome, and is board certified in internal medicine (since 1982) and cardiac rehabilitation (since 1986) in Belgium. Dr. De Meirleir serves as editor of the Journal of Chronic Fatigue Syndrome (2002). He has authored or coauthored several hundred journal articles and books on internal medicine, cardiology, exercise physiology, and Chronic Fatigue Syndrome (CFS). Currently, Dr. De Meirleir conducts rigorous research on the etiology, diagnosis and treatment of CFS. In addition to his research and teaching, he serves as president of a medical disciplinary committee and on a provincial medical regulatory commission. He is co-editor of the groundbreaking new book “Chronic Fatigue Syndrome: A Biological Approach” (CRC Press, 2002) which presents his novel research into the causes and pathogenesis of CFS.
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Daniel Peterson, M.D.
Daniel Peterson, M.D., one of the world's leading Chronic Fatigue and Immune Dysfunction Syndrome (CFIDS) clinicians and researchers. Dr. Peterson practices at Sierra Internal Medicine, in Incline Village, Nevada. Presently involved with treating CFIDS patients and conducting research trials, Dr. Peterson is a valuable source regarding breaking news on CFIDS investigations and advances in clinical treatment. Working with Dr. Paul Cheney, Dr. Peterson earned his place in medical history by documenting the historic 1985 CFIDS outbreak in Incline Village. According to CFIDS specialist David S. Bell, M.D., Peterson's and Cheney's study of this outbreak was "a milestone in the study of CFIDS." Among Dr. Peterson's many career distinctions include his pioneering studies of Ampligen as a treatment for CFIDS (Ampligen is a drug originally designed to treat retroviral infections). He is also studying the possible role of human herpes virus 6 (HHV-6) in CFIDS patients.
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Jacob Teitelbaum, M.D.
Jacob Teitelbaum, M.D., is a leading clinician and researcher on effective treatment of fibromyalgia (FM) and Chronic Fatigue Syndrome (CFS). Having experienced and reportedly overcome these illnesses in 1975, Dr. Teitelbaum has had a firsthand opportunity to find out what it means to have FM and CFS and has been motivated to help others overcome these diseases. He is also the renowned author of “From Fatigued to Fantastic,” one of the premier texts on treating Chronic Fatigue Syndrome (CFS) and fibromyalgia (FM), as well as the editor of a newsletter by the same name. He remains at the forefront of research and treatment for both CFS and FM.
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