Has Bruce Patterson Cracked Long COVID?
Bruce Patterson MD is a former Stanford researcher with quite a record. The former Medical Director of Diagnostic Virology at Stanford University Hospitals and Clinics, Patterson has co-authored around 90 papers - most prior to 2011 - at about the time he left the...
Is the Exercise Intolerance in Rheumatoid Arthritis and ME/CFS Similar?
Talk about something coming out of left field. Chronic fatigue syndrome (ME/CFS) isn't the only condition that produces odd and puzzling responses to exercise. It turns out that people with rheumatoid arthritis (RA) have their own mysterious problems with exercise....
ME/CFS and the Coronavirus Vaccine: Is There a Better Way?
Given the worsening that some people report after getting the coronavirus vaccine, Brendan asks if there is a better, safer way to get vaccinated. The choice has been a difficult one: protect oneself from a potentially dangerous virus but risk a relapse by getting...
We are Failing People with Very Severe ME/CFS
Thanks to Amber for her striking blog proposing ways to support the very severely ill when they are at their most vulnerable state. (Images added by Cort) This is the 2nd in a series of blogs published on HR that is focusing on the very severely ill. What is Whitney...
Hypothesis Predicts Major Failure Point in Chronic Fatigue Syndrome (ME/CFS)
After attempting to explain the cardiovascular issues in ME/CFS, Klaus Wirth and Carmen Scheibenbogen take on the energy and muscle issues. Warning - this is complex! Klaus Wirth and Carmen Scheibenbogen brought the chronic fatigue syndrome (ME/CFS) world something...
Study Suggests Something in the Blood is Causing Fibromyalgia
Every once in a blue moon you come across a study that kind of stops you in its tracks. This is that one for me. (Thanks to Tim Vaughn for pointing it out.) If the findings hold up it could transform our understanding and approach to fibromyalgia (FM). Plus, it has...
What is Whitney Dafoe’s Extremely Severe ME/CFS Story Telling Us?
Whitney Dafoe's painstaking and illuminating characterization of his descent into a severe illness, "Extremely Severe ME/CFS—A Personal Account", was recently published in an edition of the Healthcare Journal that was devoted to severely ME/CFS patients. Nobody to my...
The Bold Experiment Continues: the Bateman Horne Center Five Years Later
Dr. Bateman's private practice was swamped. Her waiting list was a mile long - and she'd had it! With visions of all the patients she couldn't help dancing in her head, Dr. Lucinda Bateman threw her hat over the wall, closed her practice, and embarked on a bold...
A Colossus in the ME/CFS Field Passes: Remembering Paul Cheney MD, Ph.D.
Numerous reports indicate that longtime ME/CFS pioneer Paul Cheney MD, Ph.D. died recently. Talk about a major figure of the "old guard". It's hard, if not impossible, for many people today to get what a commanding figure Paul Cheney was, and how excited people were...
