Surveys suggest that medical marijuana presents an opportunity to do some much needed good for people with ME/CFS/FM. Used correctly it can relieve pain, provide much needed relaxation, and enhance sleep. Used incorrectly it make you sick or leave you flying like a...
The “Keep Psychiatry out of the NIH Study on ME/CFS” petition has been signed by over 2,000 people and, on the face of it, it makes sense. Who would want psychiatry in one of the most important studies ever done on ME/CFS? I certainly wouldn’t. But...
Lyrica was tested in mice models before it was tested in humans. Recently a substance found in wine called resveratrol took on Lyrica in a fibromyalgia mouse model test and guess what – resveratrol appeared to be more effective at reducing neuroinflammation than...
After the FDA nixed its approval for Ampligen and saddled its producer, Hemispherx Biopharma, with paying for a large new trial, it looked like Ampligen was dead and gone. Francis Collin’s promise to increase ME/CFS funding, however, caused a seismic shift in...
Six months after an adolescent comes down with infectious mononucleosis/glandular fever she’s still exhausted – and her doctor is about to tell her she’s depressed and send her to a psychiatrist. But what if a very simple blood test – one that...
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