Has the “Reptilian Brain” Gone Haywire in ME/CFS? Back to the Brainstem We Go.
The most primitive part of the brain, the brainstem - a part of "the reptilian brain" - doesn't get much respect in medical research. VanElzakker pointed out that most brain scan studies focus on the upper, more highly developed parts of the brain. Because brain...
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The “Dialogues for a Neglected Illness” Video Series Begins: Graded Exercise Therapy, the PACE trial and ME/CFS
A British film team travels to the Central Valley in California to ask the exercise physiologists at Workwell about the effectiveness of graded exercise therapy (GET) in ME/CFS. Then they turn to the notorious PACE trial. First Voices - then Dialogues - for a...
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Giving Monday! Health Rising’s Big (little) Donation Drive Begins
Tomorrow on Giving Tuesday - the biggest giving day of the year for non-profits - the big guns of the ME/CFS movement will be vying for your support. Health Rising is going a day early. We're different. Produced by one full-time, one part-time person and two editors,...
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“The Tompkins Effect” at Harvard University: More Than Just An ME/CFS Research Center
The Ron Tompkins Effect Ron Tompkins had recently come back from a meeting with over a dozen MD's and specialists from Mass General Hospital who'd evinced a strong interest in ME/CFS. Dr. Bateman has said it's easy to get researchers, at least, interested in this...
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Giving Thanks For “How to Get On” This Thanksgiving Day
I wonder if there's another website like How to Get On on the web. I highly doubt it. Sleepy Girl's How to Get On, a website devoted to "How to Have a Great Disabled Life" is one of the most sheerly valuable sites I've ever come across. Sleepy Girl has an unusual and...
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Solid Ground at Last? Cytokines Make Good in Major ME/CFS Review
Cytokines have been like a mirage in the desert for ME/CFS. These powerful immune factors seem like they must play a major role in this disease, but as soon as researchers have closed in on them, they've always seemed to slip away. A recent major review from the U.K....
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New Pathways: A Step Towards Fine-Tuning Treatments for ME/CFS?
A recent Klimas/Broderick study had a lot of interesting things in it: the gender divide, and the illumination of possibly key immune and metabolic factors, but the most intriguing thing about the study was its potential precision. The study possibly identified...
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“Neither Dying, nor Recovering”: Learning from ICUs to Solve ME/CFS and Fibromyalgia – A Synopsis
From Dominic I believe observations made in Intensive Care Units can further understanding of ME/CFS. Indeed, following a severe injury or infection some ICU patients fail to begin recovery for unknown reasons. This condition, termed “chronic” or...
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AMMES: Helping Those Most In Need
The AMMES (American Myalgic Encephalomyelitis and Chronic Fatigue Syndrome Society) fundraiser just seems different. Many great opportunities to give exist in the ME/CFS universe .AMMES is the only one that's dedicated, though, to helping people with ME/CFS who are...
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