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...
Some believe that wearables – smartwatches and other devices that can measure a multitude of physiological parameters – are going to be one of the next big things in medicine. ‘ If a recent Stanford study is any indication, they may just well be....
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...
The NIH under Dr. Francis Collins has poured out major initiatives, none of which may be more meaningful for ME/CFS than the “Great Exercise Initiative” (my name). We know at the coarse level what happens during exercise but we know little about what...
Many voxel based brain studies have been done in fibromyalgia. These studies, which measure brain volume, have found reductions in gray matter (the stuff that makes up the neurons) in many brain regions including the frontal, cingulate, insular and motor cortices plus...
Fluge and Mella seem to be working at almost lightning speed. Besides managing their huge Rituximab study (and all the sub- studies within it) and the cyclophosphamide trial, they’re also carrying out large research studies. For years, of course, some...
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