The management of fibromyalgia patients involves a complex interplay between pharmacological management of pain and associated symptoms and the use of non-pharmacological modalities. As the elimination of all FMS symptoms (i.e. a cure) is not currently possible; the philosophy of management is symptom palliation and functional restoration. The presentation of fibromyalgia symptomatology is high...

In a recent paper, John Nyman (Nyman, 1999b) revisits an issue that has been central to much of the literature in health economics in recent years, namely the trade-off between the gains from insurance, on the one hand, and the efficiency losses from the moral hazard effect that arises as a result of the implicit subsidy to health services utilization under conventional insurance plans, on the ...