Dr. Avindra Nath laid out a three pronged strategy to develop treatments for ME/CFS at the CDC’s Grand Rounds meeting today. The first step is the Clinical Center Study soon to begin. The second step will validate the biomarkers found in the first study. The...
Our goal is to provide people touched by or otherwise interested in chronic pain with knowledge of the latest findings and ideas from this blossoming area of science, so they can spark and contribute to a worldwide conversation about chronic pain and help rally...
Thus far the NIH’s big Clinical Center study is looking good. They’ve cleared up the definition problem and are focused on post-exertional malaise. This is a different kind of study, however, than the NIH usually does. It’s an exploratory study. ...
A rough sketch of the NIH’s Clinical Center study for chronic fatigue syndrome (ME/CFS) has been posted. The good news about the study is that when Francis Collins said they were serious about ME/CFS he apparently wasn’t kidding. This looks to be the most...
We’re going to take a deeper look at the oh so interesting field of small fiber neuropathy fibromyalgia (FM). A debate is raging over how big of a role SFN plays in FM. The central sensitization guys are saying probably “not much” while the immune...
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