Finding Answers for Chronic Fatigue Syndrome and Fibromyalgia

The Doctors and Mr. Hyde: Amy Brown’s M.E Enterovirus Story

by Cort Johnson | May 23, 2017 | 27 Comments

Byron Hyde M.D. is a Canadian physician who has focused his practice on chronic fatigue syndrome (ME/CFS) patients for the past 30 years. In 1988, he founded the Nightingale Research Foundation to “explore, understand and treat the patients disabled with Myalgic...

A Run For His Son…and Everyone: An ME/CFS Parent Steps Out

by Cort Johnson | May 21, 2017 | 1 Comment

Usually sons are doing the marathons, not their fathers but Alex Ribaroff’s 21 year-old son Tom has ME/CFS. So, it’s Alex who’s stepping out on the track to do something he never expected he would have to do in his retirement years: to run to support...

Breaking the Bad Sleep / Pain Cycle? A Fibromyalgia Inquiry

by Cort Johnson | May 20, 2017 | 19 Comments

Sleep deprivation is common in fibromyalgia and it doesn’t just cause fatigue. Studies show that losing sleep increases your pain sensitivity as well, and quickly; it took just two nights of fragmented sleep to significantly increase pain sensitivity in healthy...

Exhausted Immune System? The SMCI’s Research Program Takes Deep Dive Into Immunity and Energy

by Cort Johnson | May 16, 2017 | 22 Comments

The last of three blogs on The Solve ME/CFS Initiative focuses on the SMCI’s core mission – funding research that makes a difference in chronic fatigue syndrome (ME/CFS). Serendipity can play a major role in research and it may be doing so at the SMCI....

Fibromyalgia Neuroinflammation Study May Highlight Key Factor in Chronic Pain

by Cort Johnson | May 14, 2017 | 23 Comments

Inflammation – Neuro and Otherwise Inflammation has become an increasingly important topic in fibromyalgia. It’s clear that “central sensitization” – an increase in pain sensitivity engineered by the central nervous system – is...

International Chronic Fatigue Syndrome (ME/CFS) Awareness Day Isn’t What it Used to Be…

by Cort Johnson | May 12, 2017 | 11 Comments

Making A Difference Of course this is an important day for advocacy and the biggest advocacy effort is occurring right now in Washington DC where the Solve ME/CFS Initiative (SMCI) and ME Action have teamed together to tell our politicians that today is the day to...

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