Sexual Assault Investigation Results in Dr. Jose Montoya’s Termination From Stanford University
Eleven years ago, Dr. Jose Montoya bucked his mentor’s advice to stay away from ME/CFS at all costs. In 2008, he made history by opening one of the first chronic fatigue syndrome (ME/CFS) clinic/research centers at a top university. While the promise of his...
Rare Gene Mutations May Be Affecting Energy Levels in ME/CFS
Dr. Camille Birch has a PhD in biomedical engineering and hails from the Hudson Alpha Institute for Biotechnology at Huntsville, Alabama. Hudson Alpha, only 11 years old, is one of those new biotechnology efforts that’s using sophisticated bioinformatics to...
New Immune Cell Findings Unite Chronic Fatigue Syndrome and U.K. ME/CFS Researchers
In decades of immune research, nobody has ever called attention to the specialized T-cells called MAIT cells in ME/CFS. Recently, though, two research efforts, working independently, have highlighted these unique cells – which form a bridge between the gut and...
Saving Lives: Erica Verrillo and the AMMES Financial Crisis Fund for ME/CFS
Neglect is embedded in our history. It’s hard to have a conversation without someone mentioning the neglected funding, the doctors who don’t get it, the lack of treatments, the unheeding friends or family; i.e. the things we as a community don’t have...
Jennifer Brea’s Amazing ME/CFS Recovering Story: the Spinal Series – Pt. II
Jennifer Brea is the second person so far to recover from chronic fatigue syndrome (ME/CFS), POTS, mast cell activation syndrome (MCAS) following surgery to correct craniocervical instability - a condition caused by weak ligaments which cause the head to impact the brainstem.Lives Interrupted Latest Story
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