The Temporary ME/CFS and Fibromyalgia Recovery Stories – What Can They Tell Us?
In 2015, Dean Echenberg PhD, a former public health official and Director of Disease Control in San Francisco at the height of the HIV/AIDS epidemic, had a question. His own course of ME/CFS had been anything but smooth. Echenberg had experienced years of illness...
Thanks to Everyone Who Made Heath Rising’s Fundraising Drive a Success – Plus What’s Next
A HUGE thanks to the 383 people who provided $41,902.55 to Health Rising during our year end (and a bit past year end :)) fundraising drive. More people supported Health Rising with more funding than we have ever had before. Besides the donors, a major thanks goes to...
A Nurse With ME/CFS Finds Help in a Surprising Place: Christine’s Recovery Story
A Story With Hope "Just over a year ago, I could not leave my house without a wheelchair. I spent most of my day on a couch or a bed, lying or sitting down. I avoided light, sounds, gatherings." Christine I attended the Accelerating Research on ME/CFS Conference at...
The Best, the Most, the Strangest and the Worst of 2019 in ME/CFS and Fibromyalgia
It's easy to get wrapped up in the-day-to-dayness and forget to look at the big picture. Looking back over the year, however, I was amazed at how much has happened and how many new possibilities have opened up. It's been a remarkable year - particularly regarding the...
Lipkin Brings Disease Busting Technology to ME/CFS
There's nothing like starting the new year with a new possibility. Following failures by scores of other researchers, Ian Lipkin and his new Serochip technology recently fingered the culprit behind the acute flaccid myeltis (AFM) outbreak that's been paralyzing young...
Brains on Fire, Swollen Brains, Toxins and Neuroinflammation – by Dr. Mary Ackerley
In a ISEAI presentation, Dr. Mary Ackerley talks about how environmental stressors such as mold, pathogens and toxins can trigger neuroinflammation and produce the symptoms found in ME/CFS, FM and similar diseases. Mary Ackerley MD is not your ordinary summa cum laude...
Lactate Levels Elevated Even at Rest In ME/CFS?
A large French study finds abnormally high lactate levels in ME/CFS even at rest...sometimes. David Systrom seemed to call it out - his invasive CPET results suggested that mitochondrial dysfunction was present in a large subset of people with chronic fatigue syndrome...
Epic Attempt: Will EpicGenetics Transform Fibromyalgia Diagnostics and Treatment? (And Why People with ME/CFS Should Care)
EpicGenetics - a biotech firm in Los Angeles - is attempting an FM trifecta: produce a blood and genomic test and provide a treatment. EpicGenetics is trying to make a big splash in fibromyalgia. A Los Angeles biotech firm, they focused on producing diagnostic tests...
Does Intracranial Hypertension Run Rampant in Fibromyalgia, ME/CFS and Migraine?
Studies suggest that a different form of intracranial hypertension may be common in chronic fatigue syndrome (ME/CFS), fibromyalgia and migraine. After digging around several times, the doctor was able to access my spinal fluid and I stopped squirming. Then Dr....
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