by Cort Johnson | Dec 13, 2023 | CDC, Homepage, ME/CFS
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....
by Cort Johnson | Apr 4, 2022 | Advocacy, CDC, Homepage
There’s nothing like a crisis to expose fundamental weaknesses. As Warren Buffet likes to say, “It’s only when the tide goes out that you know who’s been swimming naked.” The coronavirus and long-COVID pandemic has exposed a lot of bare...
by Cort Johnson | Mar 30, 2019 | Advocacy, CDC, Homepage, NIH
The ME/CFS community has been making valiant stabs at advocacy for quite a while. The stabbing, though, is over. That kind of ad hoc effort disappeared when the Solve ME/CFS Initiative (SMCI) hired the first full-time advocate for ME/CFS ever – Emily Taylor....
by Cort Johnson | Mar 27, 2019 | CDC, Diagnosis, Homepage, Treatment
With its regular news updates, information on drugs and diseases, quizzes, conference overviews, and educational courses, Medscape, which just turned 20 years old, strives to be a kind of one-stop shop for medical professionals (and consumers). It appears to be...
by Cort Johnson | Oct 10, 2018 | CDC, Definition, Diagnosis, Exercise, HPA axis, Inflammation, Klimas, Mifepristone
Roundtable The Centers for Disease Control (CDC) flew in about 40 people from over two dozen organizations for the one-day CDC Roundtable on Medical Education and ME/CFS. It was a busy 24 hours. Everyone flew in the night before to a hotel near the airport, spent the...