by Cort Johnson | Jan 17, 2020 | Homepage, Recovery stories, Recovery Stories
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... 
by Cort Johnson | Jan 8, 2020 | Homepage
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... 
by Cort Johnson | Jan 3, 2020 | Research, Treatment
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 –... 
by Cort Johnson | Jan 1, 2020 | Autoimmune, Brain, Immune
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... 
by Cort Johnson | Dec 30, 2019 | Brain, Homepage, Limbic System, Neuroinflammation, Neuroplasticity, Prefrontal Cortex
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...
