DecodeME is the biggest, grandest ME/CFS study ever. It’s not just that it’s big (25,000 people) that makes it unique – it’s what it’s trying to do. DecodeME is a genome-wide association (GWAS) study that is looking for small changes in...
Another ME/CFS Moment Occurs Another ME/CFS “moment” – a sign that things are changing for people with ME/CFS and related diseases – recently occurred. It’s coming right on the heels of our last ME/CFS moment – last month’s...
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...
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...
(Apologies for two email blasts for those who got them. We had a scheduling mix-up) A study seeking to uncover a diagnostic biomarker for chronic fatigue syndrome (ME/CFS) that you can participate in from your home? That was unexpected. I had never heard of Dxterity...
Eric Schadt, the study’s senior author, is not your average researcher, and Phillip Comella, the lead author, has personal experience with mysterious diseases and difficult diagnoses. A biomathematician and bioengineer, Schadt has been at the forefront of...