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...
One of the dangers facing the long-COVID research field was an over-emphasis on immune functioning and an under-emphasis on metabolism and energy production. While exercise studies showed up pretty early in chronic fatigue syndrome (ME/CFS), it took the field a while...
The Inevitable Combination Treatment Approach? Chronic fatigue syndrome (ME/CFS), fibromyalgia (FM), and long COVID are complex diseases that affect many systems and can cause a remarkable number of symptoms. It’s certainly possible that someone will get to the...