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...
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...
Eric Topol Decorated researcher, fierce critic, and innovator Eric Topol is not one to hide his light under a bushel. He speaks his mind. Whether he’s right or wrong, with the kind of bona fides Topol brings to the game (he founded the Scripps Research...
Earlier this year I talked with Solve ME’s Chief Executive Officer Oved Amitay and Vice President of Advocacy and Engagement Emily Taylor. I wanted to know what was going on with the oldest U.S. ME organization. Since its founding in 1987, Solve ME (originally...
(Brian Vastag comes full circle. A former employee of the NIH, Vastag’s Washington Post letter to NIH Director Francis Collins “I’m disabled. Can NIH spare a few dimes?”, in conjunction with the recently published IOM and NIH Pathways to Prevention...