Recovering RECOVER? They had to do something. With the money running out next year, the NIH and its RECOVER Initiative were looking at pulling the plug on over 80 clinics and kissing the $1.15 billion Congress had invested in the program goodbye – all the while...
Whoa. Another ME/CFS moment. “ME/CFS moments” are events that appear to signal that things are changing for the better for this long-neglected disease (ME/CFS). The disease is being accepted more, and gaining traction in ways that it hadn’t before....
An Interesting Time for ME/CFS at the NIH National Institutes of Health (NIH) Conferences on ME/CFS are rare events – the last one was four years ago. They’re important in several ways – for one, because they have the imprimatur of the NIH,...
Anthony Fauci’s take on ME/CFS, long COVID, and other post-infectious diseases provides an informative counterpoint to Phillips and Williams’s stunning proposition that federal funders “prioritize care delivery over research” – thus...
Health Rising started charting “ME/CFS moments” when they started popping up with some regularity. ME/CFS moments refer to events that seem to indicate that things are changing for the better for this complex and often neglected disease (as well as its...
Thanks to the 31 people who have posted their stories on Health Rising’s Lives Interrupted project! The Lives Interrupted project seeks to, in dramatic fashion, illustrate the impacts on finances, careers, relationships, and living situations that these...