Small Nerves – Big, Big Problem? Drug Trial Points Finger at Autoimmunity in Fibromyalgia and ME/CFS
Difference-Maker Unlike FMS, SFPN has identifiable pathology, physiology, and causes, and thus is definitionally a disease. Oaklander et. Al. Dr. Anne Oaklander MD, PhD, is making a difference – maybe a very big difference in the lives of many. Making a...
Lives Interrupted
Welcome to Lives Interrupted – a project by Health Rising designed to make clear on a personal level, the economic and other costs of having diseases like chronic fatigue syndrome (ME/CFS), fibromyalgia, postural orthostatic tachycardia syndrome (POTS), and long...
Chronic Fatigue Syndrome (ME/CFS) Researcher and Patients Shine During NIH Call
It’s great the NIH is doing telebriefings a couple of times a year to inform the chronic fatigue syndrome (ME/CFS) community of their progress. The calls can be more or less interesting. This one was definitely on the more interesting side. NIH Intramural Study...
Health Rising’s BIG (Little) 2017 Fundraising Drive Is On!
My Story When I came down with ME/CFS/FM around 1980 there was literally nowhere to turn. By the time I became aware of these diseases in the late 1980’s and 1990’s, most of the information on them remained repetitive and shallow. Determined to build a site...
Tying the Brain and Body Together in Fibromyalgia?
Studies showing that the parts of the brain that process pain signals are lit up like Christmas trees in fibromyalgia, migraine, and other chronic pain disorders indicate that the brain plays a major role in these diseases. Other fibromyalgia studies, which indicate...Lives Interrupted Latest Story
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