Finding Answers for Chronic Fatigue Syndrome and Fibromyalgia

Could Crippled Herpesviruses Be Contributing to Chronic Fatigue Syndrome (ME/CFS) and Other Diseases?

by Cort Johnson | Nov 17, 2018 | 0 Comments

Given the ubiquity of herpesviruses, the common infectious trigger in ME/CFS and the fact that once you're infected with them - you're infected for life - it's no surprise that researchers have been interested in herpesviruses and ME/CFS for decades. An NIH-funded...

Anaerobic Thresholds, Fatty Acid Problems and Autophagy: Dr. Klimas’s Exercise Study

by Cort Johnson | Nov 15, 2018 | 28 Comments

It was a typically warm July southern Florida day as we pulled out of our hotel to find one exit blocked by construction. Google Maps sent us in another direction, and when that didn't work out, we made our own map and, once again, hurried with time running out to our...

Free Six-Part Online ME/CFS / FM Video Series From the Bateman Horne Center Begins

by Cort Johnson | Nov 9, 2018 | 47 Comments

A Focus on Education The Bateman Horne Center in Salt Lake City is much more than one of the very few treatment clinics that focus on chronic fatigue syndrome (ME/CFS) and fibromyalgia (FM). Its extensive video library of educational talks - containing talks on...

Are “Old” Muscles Holding People with Chronic Fatigue Syndrome (ME/CFS) Down? Plus Tompkins’ Team Promises New Insights

by Cort Johnson | Nov 7, 2018 | 37 Comments

"New data collectively supports the presence of specific critical points in the muscle that are affected by free radicals." Fulle et. al. A group of pioneering Italian researchers have been studying the muscles of people with ME/CFS - a rather lonely task - for over...

Ramsay’s Continue Focus on the Mitochondria in ME/CFS – Plus, the Hunt for a Drug Target is On (!)

by Cort Johnson | Nov 3, 2018 | 13 Comments

The Solve ME/CFS Initiative's Ramsay Awards are small grants (@$50K - only in the medical field is 50K small) but potentially mighty grants. They are designed to give researchers the funding to produce pilot data needed to get really big grants - the NIH and other...

Your Vote – Your Health: The 2018 Elections – An ME/CFS and Fibromyalgia Perspective

by Cort Johnson | Oct 31, 2018 | 70 Comments

Health Rising generally stays as far away from politics as possible. While one side of the political realm may at times offer more for chronic fatigue syndrome (ME/CFS), fibromyalgia, and chronic pain patients, the difference is rarely dramatic enough for Health...

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