“MAJOR ARTICLE” It was good to see a study from a major medical university exploring exercise capacity in long COVID and appearing in a prominent medical journal. The Journal of Infectious Diseases gave it the headline “MAJOR ARTICLE”. It came...
The kind of project that the RECOVER Long COVID Initiative is, with its massive funding, is beginning to emerge. It appears to be a slow-moving, highly conservative effort that is putting a premium on delivering reproducible results but which thus far lacks creativity...
The Epstein-Barr virus (EBV) is back again and it doesn’t look like it’s going to go away anytime soon. In fact, we’ll likely be seeing more and more of this complex virus as time goes on – and hopefully, finally, learn not just what it’s...
Earlier Alice penned a thought-provoking blog “No, long COVID is not helping ME/CFS”. Now she and Dr. Naomi Harvey propose that a shift in the language we use to describe both long COVID and ME/CFS would benefit both. ME (Myalgic Encephalomyelitis) is a...
Entirely devoted to health news, STAT is much more than a medical update site like, say, Medical News Today. Not content to simply report the latest breakthroughs, STAT thrives on investigative reporting that gets behind the scenes and holds institutions accountable....
It’s very good to see this case report. Chronic fatigue syndrome (ME/CFS) experts are now bringing decades of experience to bear on treating long-COVID patients. Many are using treatments that long-COVID patients may not even know exist. Case reports like the...