A Never-Ending Immune Battle in ME/CFS? The Regulatory T-cell/Herpesvirus Hypothesis
Nuno Sepulveda proposes that people with chronic fatigue syndrome are engaged in a never ending battle between autoimmunity and herpesvirus clearance.
Explaining ME/CFS? Prusty / Naviaux Study Ties Infections to Energy Breakdowns
Bhupesh Prusty and Bob Naviaux team up to show that a simmering herpesvirus infection could produce the key features of the "cell danger response" where a mitochoncrial breakdown and immune activation combine to sap chronic fatigue syndrome patients' energy.
Bridging the Gap? Fibromyalgia, Women and Autoimmunity
There’s a big elephant in the room in both fibromyalgia (FM) and chronic fatigue syndrome (ME/CFS) and it’s women. The fact that a lot more women than men have these diseases must mean something, yet except for Dr. Klimas’s and Gordon...
Lipkin Brings Disease Busting Technology to ME/CFS
There’s nothing like starting the new year with a new possibility. Following failures by scores of other researchers, Ian Lipkin and his new Serochip technology recently fingered the culprit behind the acute flaccid myeltis (AFM) outbreak that’s been...
East African Disease Informs Nath’s Search for the Cause of ME/CFS
The fact that ME/CFS is a mystery doesn’t daunt the leader of the NIH’s big intramural study on ME/CFS at all. Just a couple of years ago Avindra Nath and his compatriots cracked a mysterious neurodegenerative disease in East Africa that researchers had...Lives Interrupted Latest Story
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