This is the fifth in our series covering two experts as they explore different facets of complex chronic illnesses such as chronic fatigue syndrome (ME/CFS), fibromyalgia (FM), postural orthostatic tachycardia syndrome (POTS), and long COVID in their...
The NIH’s RECOVER Initiative is in a strange place. It’s gone through most of its $1.15 billion nest egg without producing anything of note and its critics abound. It does have its supporters. Steven Deek at UCSF called RECOVER “a great success“, and...
THE GIST Main Takeaway – Increased excitability of a part of the brain that regulates movement, pain, and emotions, and may produce fatigue – the motor cortex – links together fibromyalgia, chronic fatigue syndrome (ME/CFS), and long COVID. In each...
Recovering RECOVER? They had to do something. With the money running out next year, the NIH and its RECOVER Initiative were looking at pulling the plug on over 80 clinics and kissing the $1.15 billion Congress had invested in the program goodbye – all the while...
Will we ever get away from the vaccine question? Probably not but at least we’re getting studies on their effects not just on COVID-19 but on getting long COVID and even healing from it. While they’re not on chronic fatigue syndrome (ME/CFS) they’re...
Thanks to everyone who supported Health Rising during its fundraising drive! We will report the results in about a week 🙂 What a heartening story Wes Ely MD, MPH is. He’s precisely the kind of researcher we want studying long COVID (and ultimately, ME/CFS. Given...