Did the FDA Mess Up the Biggest Fibromyalgia Trial Ever?
Did the FDA mess up the biggest fibromyalgia drug trial ever? The trial authors propose that changes the FDA made doomed the putative replacement for Lyrica called mirogabalin - and could impair future drugs from becoming approved.
Childhood ME/CFS Prevalence Takes a Hike – Plus Take the Childhood Poll
A 7-year study found approximately a 1% rate of childhood chronic fatigue syndrome in Chicago with higher rates in girls, in children from ethnic/racial minorities, and in adolescents. Only 5% of the children had been diagnosed. The results suggests that 555,000 children in the U.S, could have ME/CFS, 525,000 who have not been diagnosed - a situation Leondard Jason called a "national disgrace".
Bridging the Gap? Fibromyalgia, Women and Autoimmunity
There’s a big elephant in the room in both fibromyalgia (FM) and chronic fatigue syndrome (ME/CFS) and it’s women. The fact that a lot more women than men have these diseases must mean something, yet except for Dr. Klimas’s and Gordon...
“Left Out”: An ME/CFS Movie of Commitment, Hope and Despair
It was a project birthed in hope. Pal Schaathun, a Norwegian filmmaker would document what he hoped might be the end of chronic fatigue syndrome (ME/CFS). That, unfortunately, turned out not to be but Schaathun ended up documenting – in strikingly beautiful...StudyME
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