“Never Give Up”: Disabled Teacher Scores Victory Over ME/CFS Discrimination in the U.K
Pike was in a bind. His severe ME/CFS meant that he needed financial help, but two trips by medical examiners produced such biased reports as to bring him to tears. He was so dismayed by the inaccurate reports that he regretted trying in the first place. A month...
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Exercise Tests Suggest Autoimmunity Causes the Exertion Problems in Chronic Fatigue Syndrome, Fibromyalgia and POTS
Researchers and doctors get interested in ME/CFS in different ways. Many have a personal connection, but for David Systrom, a pulmonologist, it was all about demand. He didn't seek chronic fatigue syndrome patients out - quite the contrary. When Systrom was given...
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Open Medicine Foundation Symposium to Highlight Metabolic/Immune Results
Ron Davis has been wanting to bring experts in from around the world to collaborate on ME/CFS every since he got started in this field. Next week it's actually happening. The Open Medicine Foundation is going to give the ME/CFS Community a first look at their findings...
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Epigenetics Study Highlights Metabolic Problems in Chronic Fatigue Syndrome (ME/CFS)
There was a time that the HPA axis was "it" in chronic fatigue syndrome. More studies have been done on the powerful glucocorticoid hormone cortisol than other factor in ME/CFS, and it's not hard to understand why. Cortisol not only plays a major role in the stress...
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Global Pain, Fibromyalgia and the Insula – Ground Zero for Pain and Stimuli Issues in FM?
The "Global Pain" Diseases There are two kinds of "pain" in fibromyalgia. There's a more ordinary kind of pain - the burning, stabbing, aching, etc. usually associated with some type of injury (even though no overt physical injuries are present in FM), and then...
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The Big Fishing Expedition: Report from the NIH’s Intramural Study
The NIH's Intramural study constitutes the biggest "fishing expedition" ever done in this disease. From stays in metabolic chambers, to ME/CFS patients immune systems being transplanted into mice, to their "brains" (neurons) being grown in a dish, this study is going...
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