Novel Fibromyalgia Sleep and Pain Improving Drug Moves Forward
Four drugs may be approved for FM in the coming years. One of them just passed a big hurdle. A novel formulation, this drug has improved sleep, pain and fatigue in FM patients – and final (Phase Three) trials are underway across the U.S. Is the fourth drug about...
NIH Budget Suggests Major Expansion in ME/CFS Program Possible
National Institute of Health (NIH) Director Francis Collins has said he will move aggressively on chronic fatigue syndrome (ME/CFS) – and not to expect small increases in funding either. With the current ME/CFS budget sitting at around $5 million a year Collins...
NIH To Shift Funding Priorities: Will Chronic Fatigue Syndrome and Fibromyalgia Benefit?
A Different Era HIV/AIDS was the leading cause of death for U.S. adults between the ages of 25 and 44 in the 1980’s. A world-wide menace, there seemed to be no stopping the epidemic. Act Up was redefining health care advocacy and activists were marching in the...
How to Turn an Infection Into a Chronic Illness
Acute infections represent frequent and violent tissue perturbations from which the immune system must rapidly rebound. Fonseca et. al. Researchers have long believed that infections can kick off inflammatory diseases, but the link between an infection and a long term...StudyME
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