by Cort Johnson | Oct 14, 2019 | Autonomic Nervous System, Brain, Brainstem, Fibromyalgia and Pain, Gulf War Illness, Inflammation, Ion Channels, Mast cell activation syndrome
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... 
by Cort Johnson | Feb 28, 2017 | Genetics, Homepage, Immune, Ion Channels, Natural Killer Cells, Research
Hot Story The media reports have been sizzling! Griffith University, the home of the NCNED group in Australia that produced the study, called it “groundbreaking”. IFL Science lead off with a piece called “People With Chronic Fatigue Have A Defective... 
by Cort Johnson | Nov 30, 2014 | Fibromyalgia and Pain, Homepage, Ion Channels
“These results will be clinically useful, because we provide a new opportunity for mechanism-based treatment for chronic, widespread muscle pain resulting from recurrent acid insults possibly associated with symptoms of fibromyalgia and myofascial pain syndrome.” Chen... 
by Cort Johnson | Aug 1, 2014 | Autoimmune, Fibromyalgia and Pain, Homepage, Immune, Ion Channels, IVIG
A Different Kind of Pain That the immune system might play a major role in producing pain might seem obvious. Inflammation, swelling, and the symptoms of ‘sickness behavior’ including muscle and joint pains are all produced by the immune system when we catch a cold.... 
by Cort Johnson | Oct 18, 2013 | Drugs, Epstein-Barr Virus, Herpes Simplex Virus, Human Herpes Virus Six (HHV-6), Ion Channels, Pathogens
In the second of two blogs looking at future possibilities for pain relief we turn to a much feared arthropod. Drug Under Development Spells Hope for Pain Relief in Fibromyalgia and Chronic Fatigue Syndrome A friend of mine coping with severe back pain, allodynia,...
