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...
Getting at the Heart of Post-Infectious Illnesses? Bruce Patterson Talks on Long COVID and ME/CFS/FM
“We know how to treat it.” Bruce Patterson Could Bruce Patterson M.D. be way, way ahead of the game? Patterson made news earlier this year when he reported not only did he know what was causing long COVID, but he also knew how to treat it. Nobody was...
“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...
Does Mast Cell Activation Explain IBS (and Fibromyalgia and ME/CFS)?
In an impressive paper researchers conclude that mast cell activation triggered by an infection causes irritable bowel syndrome. A similar process could also explain fibromyalgia and chronic fatigue syndrome.
“Emerging Options for Autoimmune ME/CFS”: Scheibenbogen at the 2021 IACFS/ME Conference
Several facets of chronic fatigue syndrome (ME/CFS) suggest it may have an autoimmune component including it's infectious onset, autoimmunity in families, research findings, and the results of small clinical trials.Lives Interrupted Latest Story
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