Citing statistics indicating that 40 people die every day in the U.S. from prescription pain killer overdose, CDC director Tom Frieden bluntly called for doctors to stop over prescribing the drugs. The CDC’s voluntary guidelines called for opioid pain killers...
It’s been quite a month on the HR Forums. My experience with Forums is that at some point they just catch on. That happened last month on the HR Forums with the number of posts zinging up 6 times their previous record and pageviews booming up 50%. If...
The NIH held a telebriefing with about 100 ME/CFS advocates, researchers and supporters Tuesday morning. This overview is taken from my notes of the meeting. The Big Three – Dr. Francis Collins, Dr. Koroshetz and Dr. Nath – were all there – and that...
Jarred Younger was lured away from Stanford by a University that wanted to get a lead in an emerging field. By definition emerging fields are not quite there yet…they’re emerging. Picking a winner in the medical field sweepstakes may be a bit like backing...
Most people with ME/CFS are not scientists but they do have a unique experience with ME/CFS and a burning desire to know what the heck is going on. In that vein the ME/CFS Community provided over a hundred suggestions for the NIH’s massive Clinical Center Study....
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