Hope for Fibromyalgia: A Possible Fibromyalgia Vaccine
The plan for a new vaccine
Wouldn't it be great for fibromyalgia patients to wake up one morning to find out that their disease and chronic pain would no longer be an issue? This may no longer be a distant dream, thanks to Dr. Bruce Gillis, CEO of the California company EpicGenetics and Dr. Denise Faustman, Director of Massachusetts General Hospital who wish to provide a vaccine that will hopefully cure fibromyalgia.
EpicGenetics made the first move when they conducted a diagnostic test for fibromyalgia years ago and found out that the symptoms of the disease are related to a suppressed immune system. According to Dr. Bruce Gillis, because the patients’ immune system cannot produce normal quantities of protective proteins, it badly affects their condition.
The peripheral blood mononuclear cells in the person’s immune system are not producing the normal quantities needed, and these abnormalities are what EpicGenetics and Faustman’s Lab are testing in their FM/a blood test for the disease. Moreover, high hopes are expected; this is because the chemokines and cytokines or the protective proteins to be tested are the ones boosted with the Bacille Calmette-Guerin vaccine.
