The Long COVID Disability Dilemma plus a Disability Webinar and Resources to Help You Win Your Case
"Never let a good crisis go to waste." Winston Churchill The times they are a-changing. The pandemic has altered the way we work and live, given a huge boost to telemedicine, practically birthed a new research field (post-infectious diseases), underscored the huge...
The Big Merge? Are Long COVID and ME/CFS Hypotheses Meshing?
This new ME/CFS / long-COVID paper, "Endothelial Senescence and Chronic Fatigue Syndrome, a COVID-19 Based Hypothesis", highlights something we'd hoped would occur with COVID-19: new eyes being placed on, and new perspectives being produced on chronic fatigue syndrome...
Did The ME/CFS Field Give Up Too Early on Enteroviruses?
They were the "original gangster" (OG) in chronic fatigue syndrome (ME/CFS). At one point in time, enteroviruses were pretty much "it" in ME/CFS. Indeed, the ME/CFS outbreaks from the 1930s to 1960s resembled nothing so much as atypical poliomyelitis (enterovirus)...
International ME/CFS Conference to Focus on New Frontiers, Long COVID, Exercise Studies, Immune Exhaustion and More
Something that's never happened in thirty years is happening: the International Association for Chronic Fatigue Syndrome / Myalgic Encephalomyelitis (IACFS/ME) Conferences are happening one year apart. That's presumably due to the newfound ease of hosting conferences...
Has Bruce Patterson Cracked Long COVID?
Bruce Patterson MD is a former Stanford researcher with quite a record. The former Medical Director of Diagnostic Virology at Stanford University Hospitals and Clinics, Patterson has co-authored around 90 papers - most prior to 2011 - at about the time he left the...
Is the Exercise Intolerance in Rheumatoid Arthritis and ME/CFS Similar?
Talk about something coming out of left field. Chronic fatigue syndrome (ME/CFS) isn't the only condition that produces odd and puzzling responses to exercise. It turns out that people with rheumatoid arthritis (RA) have their own mysterious problems with exercise....
ME/CFS and the Coronavirus Vaccine: Is There a Better Way?
Given the worsening that some people report after getting the coronavirus vaccine, Brendan asks if there is a better, safer way to get vaccinated. The choice has been a difficult one: protect oneself from a potentially dangerous virus but risk a relapse by getting...
We are Failing People with Very Severe ME/CFS
Thanks to Amber for her striking blog proposing ways to support the very severely ill when they are at their most vulnerable state. (Images added by Cort) This is the 2nd in a series of blogs published on HR that is focusing on the very severely ill. What is Whitney...
Hypothesis Predicts Major Failure Point in Chronic Fatigue Syndrome (ME/CFS)
After attempting to explain the cardiovascular issues in ME/CFS, Klaus Wirth and Carmen Scheibenbogen take on the energy and muscle issues. Warning - this is complex! Klaus Wirth and Carmen Scheibenbogen brought the chronic fatigue syndrome (ME/CFS) world something...
