End of the year donation drives are always anxiety producing. For one, they can account for a rather jaw dropping 40-50% of Health Rising’s yearly income. It’s a great relief, then, to be able to report that our 2020 BIG (little) donation drive was...
When Will the Vaccines Become Available? The vaccines are coming but they will take time. Only 4.3 million people of the expected 20 million people in the U.S. have been vaccinated. All told about twelve million doses have been given across the world. China and the...
Tracking in at somewhere around $350 million, the Congressionally Directed Medical Research Program (CDMRP) is not a small program. It was created in 1992 to fund novel approaches to “biomedical research in response to the needs … of the American public, the...
Paradigm Shift for Long COVID Patients (and people with ME/CFS)? The dramatic announcement that Congress is going to appropriate over a billion dollars (a billion dollars!) to study the COVID-19 long haulers was just one sign that long COVID is being taken seriously....
Ivabradine appears to work quite well in POTS – but should we stop there? Ivabradine was approved for use in the European Union in 2005, but it’s pretty new to the scene in the U.S. It was FDA approved in only 2015. That means it doesn’t have much...
