Exercise Triggers Major Immune System Letdown in ME/CFS
The great question for chronic fatigue syndrome and long COVID is: what causes post-exertional malaise (PEM)? The latest study to come out of Nancy Klimas’s Institute for Neuroimmune Medicine – led by Lubov Nathanson (senior author) and directed by Derek...
My Recovery Journey from Myalgic Encephalomyelitis / Chronic Fatigue Syndrome (ME/CFS)
The eighth in Health Rising’s recent recovery story series brings yet another slant on recovery. We’ve had fast recoveries where someone found “the thing” (Melissa’s spinal patch, Rachel and Adam’s vaccines) that quickly turned...
Signs of Change? Did Two ME/CFS and Fibromyalgia “Moments” Just Occur?
ME/CFS and FM Moments? I think of “moments” as unusual events that suggest the tide may be turning for these common but sorely neglected diseases. Health Rising has documented several possible ME/CFS “moments” over the past two years and now we...
Vagus Nerve Stimulation in ME/CFS, FM, POTS and Long COVID – Is its Promise Being Fulfilled?
If any treatment has promise, vagus nerve stimulation (VNS) does. Through its stimulation of the rest/digest system (the parasympathetic nervous system (PNS)), VNS has the potential to tamp down the fight/flight system that seems to be raging in chronic fatigue...
The Good, the Bad, and the Strange: the RECOVER Initiative Long COVID Grants
From the beginning, the RECOVER Initiative has focused on building out the massive infrastructure needed to follow and study approximately 18,000 participants. Hundreds of millions of dollars have been spent creating the main thrust of the Initiative. About a year...Lives Interrupted Latest Story
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