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...
Cytokines have been like a mirage in the desert for ME/CFS. These powerful immune factors seem like they must play a major role in this disease, but as soon as researchers have closed in on them, they’ve always seemed to slip away. A recent major review from the...
A recent Klimas/Broderick study had a lot of interesting things in it: the gender divide, and the illumination of possibly key immune and metabolic factors, but the most intriguing thing about the study was its potential precision. The study possibly identified...
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...
When you have a systemic disease, any part of your body can provide a clue – even your nose. Over 15 years from 1998 to 2012, James Baraniuk, a longtime ME/CFS and GWI researcher at Georgetown University, became the first and thus far the last person to try and...
I listened miserably to the sounds of silence broken by my occasional exclamations: “really?”, “no kidding”, “fascinating!”. During my two long sessions with Dr. Klimas, the recorder app on my phone had decided to record only my...
