The Beast, the Disease and the Breakthrough: A Way Forward for ME/CFS and Fibromyalgia?
A Young Doctor Fights to Cure His Own Rare, Deadly Disease His Doctors Were Stumped. Then He Took Over. The “Beast” was just twenty-five years old. A physical specimen, David Fajgenbaum went from gym rat to invalid incredibly quickly. First his lymph nodes...
Jen Brea’s Outrageously Successful Chronic Fatigue Syndrome (ME) TED Talk
Talk about the art of communication. There’s a reason Jen Brea’s TED talk on ME/CFS has received over 220,000 views in just four days; it’s just really, really good. Check out a talk that’s spreading the word on ME/CFS with lightning speed and...
The NIH’s Five Year Funding Increase for Chronic Fatigue Syndrome (ME/CFS): Does it Pass Muster?
In November 2015 NIH Director Francis Coillins said that NIH was going to “ramp up” funding for ME/CFS and that it would be “substantially greater” than the current five or six million dollars a year the disease was getting. “Just watch...
Epic Measures: How One Man Changed the World (and Possibly Chronic Fatigue Syndrome and Fibromyalgia)
Chronic fatigue syndrome (ME/CFS) and fibromyalgia (FM) have a long, long way to go before they get the attention and resources they deserve. It would take a heroic leap to quickly achieve what people with these diseases deserve and what the diseases themselves...
NIH Takes a Step Back: Asks ME/CFS Denier to Speak on Chronic Fatigue Syndrome
The NIH laid a huge egg when someone invited Edward Shorter, a Toronto psychiatrist who makes Simon Wessely look like an angel, to speak on ME/CFS. Shorter not only denies the disease exists but calls ME/CFS patients “groaning victims” and belittles their...Lives Interrupted Latest Story
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