For decades it was a medical mystery. For many years it wasn’t even believed to exist. It all started back in the Kuwaiti desert over 30 years ago. Militarily, the first Gulf War was pretty much a cakewalk. After pummeling Iraqi forces with bombs for over a...
Long-COVID exercise study brings it closer to ME/CFS – and suggests a wholesale shift in muscle production may have occurred. People with long COVID will appreciate this study’s attempt to get at perhaps the core problem in the condition –...
“If you think research is expensive, try disease.”—Mary Lasker (NIGMS, 2011) If any medical field needs help, it’s chronic pain. It’s remarkable, indeed, that the treatment options for a field that affects so many and has such huge economic and...
Last week Health Rising highlighted one role that #MEAction, in its capacities as a superb communication resource, provides: outreach to the scientific community. Today we focus on a surprising side of MEAction: as a generator of scientific data. MEAction...
The thousands of mouse models that have been produced have played a critical role in understanding and developing drugs for diseases. Guess which disease, though, does not have one? That’s right it’s ME/CFS. For 40 years it’s been missing a critical...
