Celebrating ME/CFS Awareness Day – In So Many Different Ways
Tom Hennessy and International Advocacy/Awareness Day Tom Hennessy created International ME/CFS/FM Advocacy day over 30 years ago. A fierce and creative fighter, Tom’s advocacy career was unfortunately curtailed by a tremendously difficult case of ME/CFS. To...
Damaged Small Nerve Fibers May be Causing Energy Problems in Chronic Fatigue Syndrome (ME/CFS)
Invasive exercise study uncovers two different kinds of chronic fatigue syndrome. One is characterized by low heart outputs associated with reduced preload and blood pooling. The other is probably caused by shunts which propel blood away from the muscles. Approximately 30% of ME/CFS patients have small fiber neuropathy as well. Deconditioning is not causing the abnormalities found.
Major Fibromyalgia Muscle Study Points to the Mitochondria
Reduced ATP levels in the muscles suggests that mitochondrial problems are causing pain in fibromyalgia and other chronic pain conditions.
Does Anthony Fauci Finally Get It About Chronic Fatigue Syndrome (ME/CFS)?
Has the Darth Vader of the ME/CFS Movement Changed His Tune? Anthony Fauci has led the National Institute of Allergy and Infectious Diseases (NIAID) at the National Institutes of Health (NIH) for 36 years. The man must be doing something right. Neither HIV/AIDS, SARS,...
Novel Chronic Fatigue Syndrome (ME/CFS) Brain Stimulation Clinical Trial Begins
The Mission Solve M.E.’s Chief Scientific Officer, Sadie Whittaker, was on a mission. She wanted to get chronic fatigue syndrome (ME/CFS) embedded in one of the top medical schools in the country. UCLA, located in the tony Westwood neighborhood of Los Angeles,...StudyME
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