Just as a billion dollars plus in funding came available for long COVID research, a large research study closely linked the symptoms found in the disease with those found in chronic fatigue syndrome. Several major media article also linked the two.
Emily Taylor of Solve ME/CFS Initiative reported that Congress has approved $1.15 billion (yes that’s a billion with a “B”) for the NIH to fund long-COVID research and clinical trials. $100 million will specifically be used for the rapid acceleration...
The National Institutes of Health (NIH), with its pitiful funding, has been a thorn in the ME/CFS community’s side for decades. For decades advocates have thrown everything they could – heartbreaking stories, demonstrations, insults – at the NIH in...
Beginnings In 2016, Vicky Whittemore asserted before NANDSC (the National Advisory Council for the Institute for Neurological Disorders and Stroke (NINDS)) that a desperate need existed to bolster research for chronic fatigue syndrome (ME/CFS). (NANDSC Council is the...
Dr. Klimas's big Gulf War Consortium grant will result in 5 clinical trials over the next five years including Enbrel / Mifepristone, CoQ10, glutathione, intranasal insulin and Bacopa and will enable ther to expand her computational biology work with chronic fatigue syndrome (ME/CFS)
ME/CFS Rears Its Head Again A commitment to social justice runs in Carol Head’s blood. She founded a non-profit which has given away millions to support entrepreneurs who work on global poverty, and was a founding board member of another non-profit that tells the...
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