Our goal is to provide people touched by or otherwise interested in chronic pain with knowledge of the latest findings and ideas from this blossoming area of science, so they can spark and contribute to a worldwide conversation about chronic pain and help rally...
Thus far the NIH’s big Clinical Center study is looking good. They’ve cleared up the definition problem and are focused on post-exertional malaise. This is a different kind of study, however, than the NIH usually does. It’s an exploratory study. ...
A rough sketch of the NIH’s Clinical Center study for chronic fatigue syndrome (ME/CFS) has been posted. The good news about the study is that when Francis Collins said they were serious about ME/CFS he apparently wasn’t kidding. This looks to be the most...
We’re going to take a deeper look at the oh so interesting field of small fiber neuropathy fibromyalgia (FM). A debate is raging over how big of a role SFN plays in FM. The central sensitization guys are saying probably “not much” while the immune...
In 2011 the CFIDS Association (now the Solve ME/CFS Initiative) engaged a “drug repositioning” company called Biovista to search through thousands of drugs to find a new approach to ME/CFS. Biovista’s algorithm identified “every known gene,...
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