by Cort Johnson | Dec 12, 2018 | Allodynia, Autoimmune, Brain, Gut, Herpes Simplex Virus, Homepage, Ivabradine, IVIG, Migraine, Prefrontal Cortex
It’s always hard to lose a loved one, but the deaths in ME/CFS seem particularly hard. They tend to be quite painful, they often take place in the midst of a non-supportive medical system, and they’re a complete mystery. With no seeming way out it’s... 
by Cort Johnson | Nov 29, 2018 | Immune, Inflammation, Metabolism
Energy production problems seem to show up everywhere one looks in ME/CFS and the immune system is turning out to be no exception. A recent B-cell study suggests that problems producing energy could be leaving ME/CFS patient’s B-cells in a naive state... 
by Cort Johnson | Nov 23, 2018 | Epigenetics, Genetics, Immune, Oxidative Stress
DNA that doesn’t get translated into proteins used to be called “junk DNA” but it turns out that much of it isn’t junk at all. Much of what was formerly turned junk DNA is actually actively modifying how our genes are being expressed and our... 
by Cort Johnson | Nov 3, 2018 | Autoimmune, Drugs, Energy Production, Genetics, Homepage, Inflammation, Mast cell activation syndrome
The Solve ME/CFS Initiative’s Ramsay Awards are small grants (@$50K – only in the medical field is 50K small) but potentially mighty grants. They are designed to give researchers the funding to produce pilot data needed to get really big grants – the... 
by Cort Johnson | Oct 10, 2018 | CDC, Definition, Diagnosis, Exercise, HPA axis, Inflammation, Klimas, Mifepristone
Roundtable The Centers for Disease Control (CDC) flew in about 40 people from over two dozen organizations for the one-day CDC Roundtable on Medical Education and ME/CFS. It was a busy 24 hours. Everyone flew in the night before to a hotel near the airport, spent the... 
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...
