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...
Serimmune’s Free ME/CFS Coronavirus and Tick Antibody Testing Study Is Open
Ever wonder if you’ve been exposed to one of those nasty tick-borne illnesses? How about if you ever came down with the coronavirus? A free study launched by the Santa Barbara-based Serimmune company could provide you with some data on that. Serimmune was created in...
The Brainstem – Is it THE Pain Conductor in Fibromyalgia?
The received wisdom about the pain in fibromyalgia (FM) is that it's being produced in the central nervous system. That idea was amplified very early in "Altered Pain in the Brainstem and Spinal Cord of Fibromyalgia Patients During the Anticipation and Experience of...
Mestinon Moves the Needle on ME/CFS in Exercise Study
Mestinon moves the needle on ME/CFS in unusual one-shot exercise study This is the most unusual clinical trial/study that I've come across. Too short to be a full-blown clinical trial, it was essentially a short-term test of the idea that problems with neurovascular...
