How Long COVID and Chronic Fatigue Syndrome (ME/CFS) Exhaust the Body
“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...
Major Long COVID Study Brings Autoantibodies and Epstein-Barr Virus to the Fore
“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...
Berlin Cures…? Could BC 007 Help With Long COVID and ME/CFS?
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...
Is “Friendly Fire” Causing Long COVID, ME/CFS and POTS? The Autoantibody Question
Friendly Fire? Recent studies featuring potentially game-changing blood vessel problems in ME/CFS/FM and long COVID have been illuminating but have lacked a crucial component: how it all started. A July study led by Edward Yang and fellow Yale researchers published in...
“Straining for Energy”- Large Metabolic Study Suggests ME/CFS is an “Immunometabolic” Disease
The Norwegians are doing it again – reminding us that the fight to understand ME/CFS/FM is an international effort and that crucial insights are coming in from across the globe. The Norwegian odyssey has been interesting. Fluge and Mella began with an...StudyME
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