How to Build the ME/CFS Field: The NIH Wants Your Input
The NANDS Council Working Group for ME/CFS Research is a NINDS (National Institute of Neurological Disorders and Stroke) effort designed to get NINDS off its butt (so to speak) and accelerate the research done on ME/CFS. It will ask NANDS – the group which...
David Tuller On Exposing the Bad Science Behind the Biopsychosocial Effort to Define ME/CFS
“…many of these people spout nonsense and then freak out when confronted with facts or details about the research that they can’t explain away.” David Tuller David Tuller is a unique figure in the ME/CFS universe. A reporter and editor for the San...
The Squeaky Wheel: the SMCI’s Professional Advocate Emily Taylor on Strategically Making Noise for Chronic Fatigue Syndrome
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....
Medscape’s Chronic Fatigue Syndrome (ME/CFS) Program Reaches Deep into the Medical Community
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...
Dr Nath Talks on the ME/CFS NIH Intramural Study
Clutching our little maps we gloomily stared at the rain pelting the grey labyrinth that was the NIH. We were utterly lost and very late for our appointment with Dr. Nath, the leader of the NIH Intramural study on ME/CFS. Thankfully, we eventually found our way and...Lives Interrupted Latest Story
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