Opioid Painkiller Crackdown The news regarding opioids has been mostly bad for fibromyalgia (FM) and chronic fatigue syndrome (ME/CFS) patients. Restrictions on opioid pain killers could put these medications at risk for FM patients battling one of the most painful...
The Newcomer Phair came to this disease like many others have – he knew someone (a neighbor) who had it. When a piece on ME/CFS by Tracie White showed up in the Stanford Alumni magazine in 2016, he contacted Laurel Crosby in Ron Davis’s Stanford lab and...
I think that my patients are some of the bravest, most stalwart individuals ever, and I admire them sincerely. Charles Lapp Dr. Lapp’s path to medicine and then into chronic fatigue syndrome (ME/CFS) and fibromyalgia (FM) was an unusual one. Lapp graduated from...
This is the second of three blogs examining the possibility that upper body/head issues play a role in chronic fatigue syndrome (ME/CFS) and/or fibromyalgia (FM). The first blog examined the possibility that high blood pressure in the brain was present in ME/CFS and...
An Exploratory Drug Trial For ME/CFS In the next month or so, Cortene, a small drug development company, will do a very unusual thing – trial a new drug in chronic fatigue syndrome (ME/CFS). The first two parts of the series on this new drug covered how ME/CFS...
Health Rising is proud to announce that the Solve ME/CFS Initiative (SMCI) has become a sponsor. No organization has played a bigger role in ME/CFS than the SMCI (formerly the CFIDS Association of America (CAA)). Indeed, it’s hard to imagine what the field would...
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