by Alice Kennedy | May 1, 2023 | COVID-19, Homepage, long COVID
Earlier Alice penned a thought-provoking blog “No, long COVID is not helping ME/CFS”. Now she and Dr. Naomi Harvey propose that a shift in the language we use to describe both long COVID and ME/CFS would benefit both. ME (Myalgic Encephalomyelitis) is a...
by Cort Johnson | Apr 26, 2023 | Autoimmune, Brain, Cardiovascular, COVID-19, Epstein-Barr Virus, Homepage, Lyme Disease (Borrelia), Pathogens
Recent studies indicate that the coronavirus is triggering many new autoimmune and neurological diseases. That's good news for chronic fatigue syndrome (ME/CFS)
by Rachel Strohm | Mar 17, 2023 | COVID-19, Homepage, Immune, long COVID, Pathogens, Research
As a researcher in international development, travel vaccines for low-income countries are a typical part of my life. But I never expected that once I developed Long COVID, a travel vaccine for Japanese encephalitis might help me make a rapid recovery. Could similar...
by Cort Johnson | Feb 27, 2023 | Autoimmune, B-cells, Cardiovascular, Clotting, COVID-19, Homepage, Immune, Inflammation, long COVID, Research, T-cells
Profound immune dysregulation and inflammation points a finger at a viral reservoir, viral reactivation or autoimmunity in long COVID.
by Cort Johnson | Feb 19, 2023 | Antivirals, COVID-19, Epstein-Barr Virus, Homepage, Pathogens, Research
Amy Proal digs into the new EXPLORE technology that Timothy Heinrich is using to find deeply buried viruses in long COVID. Plus, chronic fatigue syndrome gets an enterovirus study of its own.
by Cort Johnson | Dec 9, 2022 | Autoimmune, Exercise, Inflammation, long COVID, Pathogens, Research
The NIH's Avindra Nath calls the big chronic fatigue syndrome study results fascinating and predicts we will learn much in the next year about long COVID.