Check out Geoff’s narration The Long COVID Moonshot proposal recently introduced by Senator Bernie Sanders is something that everyone with a post-infectious disease – and that includes people with long COVID, chronic fatigue syndrome (ME/CFS),...
Listen to Geoff’s narration of this blog This is a wrenching, disturbing blog. It’s putatively about the war on cancer, but it’s really about medicine and all the weirdnesses that goes into fighting a disease. You might think that in cancer...
The NIH’s RECOVER Initiative is in a strange place. It’s gone through most of its $1.15 billion nest egg without producing anything of note and its critics abound. It does have its supporters. Steven Deek at UCSF called RECOVER “a great success“, and...
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,...