by Cort Johnson | Oct 3, 2018 | Autoimmune, Energy Production, Homepage, Human Herpes Virus Six (HHV-6), Immune, Neuroinflammation
As we know, grant applications in chronic fatigue syndrome (ME/CFS) are hard to come by. Freedom of Information Requests indicate that the NIH received the lowest number of ME/CFS grant applications in memory last year – just 15. Since the NIH spends MUCH more...
by Cort Johnson | Oct 1, 2018 | Immune, Lyme Disease (Borrelia), Research
Why some people with Lyme disease fail to recover after antibiotic treatment is a question that touches not only on them but on other commonly post-infectious illnesses like ME/CFS, FM and POTS. Further work is needed but an answer could be at hand. Not only did a...
by Cort Johnson | Aug 8, 2018 | Epstein-Barr Virus, Homepage, Infectious mononucleosis
The Epstein-Barr virus appears to be turning on many genes that contribute to autoimmune diseases. Could it be doing the same in chronic fatigue syndrome (ME/CFS)?
by Cort Johnson | Jul 4, 2018 | Homepage, Lyme Disease (Borrelia), Research, Treatment
A series of recent articles have laid bare the Lyme disease problem in the U.S with startling clarity. Given the disease’s remarkable spread in forty years (it was identified in Connecticut in the 1970’s), many people with mysterious fatigue and pain...
by Cort Johnson | May 21, 2018 | Herpes Simplex Virus, Homepage, Migraine, Pridgen, Treatment
We also hypothesize that migraine may be attributable to a reactivation of a latent HSV residing within the trigeminal ganglion. The authors She was a healthy 21-year-old white college student who woke up one morning to a “scintillating scotoma”, a visual...
by Cort Johnson | Apr 30, 2018 | Epstein-Barr Virus, Pathogens
It’s not every day that a noted researcher calls a study “the capstone” of his career or asserts that it’s more important than the rest of his 500 studies put together. That’s pretty amazing but the exciting part for those of us with...