Every once in a blue moon you come across a study that kind of stops you in its tracks. This is that one for me. (Thanks to Tim Vaughn for pointing it out.) If the findings hold up it could transform our understanding and approach to fibromyalgia (FM). Plus, it has...
(Apologies for two email blasts for those who got them. We had a scheduling mix-up) A study seeking to uncover a diagnostic biomarker for chronic fatigue syndrome (ME/CFS) that you can participate in from your home? That was unexpected. I had never heard of Dxterity...
“I had thought, it’s only about nine minutes of exercise, how much is going to change? A lot, as it turns out.” Dr. Mike Snyder – senior author of the study How much could nine minutes of an exercise bout change in your body? Probably not that much, Dr. Snyder...
The findings are tentative and need to be validated, but if they hold up they could signal a fundamental split between people who’s chronic fatigue syndrome (ME/CFS) was triggered by an infection and those who came down with ME/CFS some other way. If your...
Solve ME funds seven pilot studies on chronic fatigue syndrome (ME/CFS) in its 2019 Ramsay Awards The great thing about Solve ME’s Ramsay awards is their sheer breadth. Particularly with the 2019 awards, the Ramsays are dropping seeds across the biological...
It’s the simplest of medical tests. The erythrocyte sedimentation rate (ESR or SED rate) test simply measures the rate at which the red blood cells in whole blood descend in a test tube over a period of one hour. This non-specific measure of inflammation works...
