A longtime cancer fatigue researcher finds the same microglial cell abnormalities in long COVID. Glial Cells to the Fore Again Chemo fog, brain fog, fibro fog – even “COVID fog” – it’s a foggy world out there for people with...
For decades it was a medical mystery. For many years it wasn’t even believed to exist. It all started back in the Kuwaiti desert over 30 years ago. Militarily, the first Gulf War was pretty much a cakewalk. After pummeling Iraqi forces with bombs for over a...
“Millions of people continue to suffer from exhaustion, cognitive problems and other long-lasting symptoms after a coronavirus infection. The exact causes of the illness, known as long Covid, are not known. But new research offers clues, describing the toll the...
When you have a systemic disease, any part of your body can provide a clue – even your nose. Over 15 years from 1998 to 2012, James Baraniuk, a longtime ME/CFS and GWI researcher at Georgetown University, became the first and thus far the last person to try and...
I listened miserably to the sounds of silence broken by my occasional exclamations: “really?”, “no kidding”, “fascinating!”. During my two long sessions with Dr. Klimas, the recorder app on my phone had decided to record only my...
Baraniuk believes chronic fatigue syndrome (ME/CFS), fibromyalgia and Gulf War Illness are related. In fact, he calls the post-exertional malaise found in chronic fatigue syndrome (ME/CFS) a “unique characteristic of CFS that is shared by Gulf War Illness (GWI)...
