Study suggests natural killer cells are whacking the small nerve fibers in fibromyalgia After decades of surveying chronic fatigue syndrome (ME/CFS) and fibromyalgia (FM) literature, the study, “Unbiased immune profiling reveals a natural killer cell-peripheral...
Epic ME/CFS Hypothesis Series Not many people have taken their shot at completely explaining chronic fatigue syndrome (ME/CFS), but of those that have, Wirth and Scheibenbogen’s epic three-part hypothesis series takes the cake. If the goal of a hypothesis is to...
“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...
One of the first questions that could be answered regarding long COVID quite quickly is why it’s happening. Why did one person not recover when so many others did? That question has bedeviled many people with chronic fatigue syndrome (ME/CFS), post-infectious...
“It’s the first real solid attempt to come up with some biologic mechanisms for long Covid,” said Dr. Steven Deeks. A large and complex long-COVID study was recently published. It’s one of the first major studies to follow large numbers of long-COVID patients...
As Carmen Scheibenbogen’s group was tracking down autoantibodies that affect the blood vessel functioning in chronic fatigue syndrome (ME/CFS), a small German group called Berlin Cures was using a different assay to assess the same autoantibodies in heart...
