IACFS/ME International Virtual Conference Coming Up! Early Bird Registration Soon to Expire
It's coming - the granddaddy of them all - the IACFS/ME's International ME/CFS Conference. The ME/CFS field may have struggled for decades to get funding, it may still be derided by some (witness the reason for a recent NIH grant application rejection: "it's...
Getting Run Down by ME/CFS – A Memoir: Summer Reading # I
Most people's idea of fun summer reading probably does not include exploring a person's experience of chronic fatigue syndrome (ME/CFS). Mine apparently does - I blew through Michael Gallagher's memoir of ME/CFS "Run Down: An Endurance Athlete's Race Against Chronic...
A Gas Exchange Disease? Huge CDC Exercise Study Puts New Slant on ME/CFS
A large CDC exercise study highlights breathing abnormalities in ME/CFS - but points a finger at the muscles. Part one of a series on breathing and oxygenation in chronic fatigue syndrome (ME/CFS) and long COVID focuses on a large study that prompted a reassessment of...
The Neuroglial Hypothesis – A Brains-Eye View of ME/CFS
A neuroglial hypothesis of ME/CFS from a pediatrician with ME/CFS and a leading glial cell researcher Yet another fascinating hypothesis has come our way. Produced by a German researcher/pediatrician/author with chronic fatigue syndrome (ME/CFS) in collaboration with...
The NIH – a Long COVID Savior? Or is it Doing to Long COVID What It Did to ME/CFS?
With its more remarkable funding, the NIH should be leading the hunt to solve long COVID. Thus far, though, it's in the rear of the pack. The NIH's history with post-infectious diseases like chronic fatigue syndrome (ME/CFS) carries so much baggage, and is so loaded...
Up from the Ashes: James’s Severe ME/CFS Recovery/Recovering Story
I’d been corresponding with Frank, James’s father, for several years. His son, a former emergency room doctor, had a very severe case of ME/CFS, and Frank had been beating the bushes to find anything that could help. Nothing, however, was working. Recently, though, I...
The Bruce Patterson Conundrum for Long COVID and ME/CFS
Trouble... Bruce Patterson MD rolled into a most interesting Solve M.E. event like he didn't have a care in the world. Patterson has aggressively pushed his diagnostic tests and treatment regimen in the media - including publishing the same opinion piece in the San...
Ron Davis’s ME/CFS Moment: The “Core Technology Disrupter” Gets a Win
Ron Davis gets a win but will he ever be given the chance to bring his core disrupting technologies to ME/CFS? An ME/CFS Moment: something unexpected happens that indicates the tide is rising for the ME/CFS field. This could include something like a big grant...
Health Rising’s Short and Painless Summer Donation Drive Has Begun!
Health Rising's short (for us) and painless (for you) summer donation drive has begun. We call it "painless" because we like to focus on recurring donations in the summer drive. A $5 or $10 or more recurring donation/month is pretty painless for many people and yet...