A rough sketch of the NIH’s Clinical Center study for chronic fatigue syndrome (ME/CFS) has been posted. The good news about the study is that when Francis Collins said they were serious about ME/CFS he apparently wasn’t kidding. This looks to be the most...
We’re going to take a deeper look at the oh so interesting field of small fiber neuropathy fibromyalgia (FM). A debate is raging over how big of a role SFN plays in FM. The central sensitization guys are saying probably “not much” while the immune...
In 2011 the CFIDS Association (now the Solve ME/CFS Initiative) engaged a “drug repositioning” company called Biovista to search through thousands of drugs to find a new approach to ME/CFS. Biovista’s algorithm identified “every known gene,...
One way to accomplish something is imagine a future in which it has already occurred and then work backwards and show how it happened. Doing that illuminates what needs to happen now in order to produce that result. This is a thought experiment that explains how...
Maija Haavisto is an author, journalist, medical writer, translator, photographer and person with ME/CFS. Maija last wrote on LDN, Nootropics, Rituximab and Fads for Health Rising. In this piece Maija looks at the interesting intersections between the HINI flu and...
The feds have been stating that ME/CFS is a very serious disease – that it’s a priority – that they’re REALLY committed to helping people with ME/CFS, for years. I’ve never heard anyone at the NIH ever state they believe ME/CFS is a minor...
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