The RECOVER Initiative Interview: Will 30 Years of ME/CFS Make a Difference?
Is the RECOVER Initiative listening to 30 years of experience? Time will tell. The RECOVER Initiative is not just a big deal for long COVID; it’s potentially a very big deal for chronic fatigue syndrome (ME/CFS), post-treatment Lyme disease syndrome,...
The Prusty Files: HHV-6 Found in the Brains of ME/CFS Patients
Bhupesh Prusty’s goal seems to be to upend what we know about the herpesviruses, in particular, human herpesvirus-6 (HHV-6), and their relationship to chronic fatigue syndrome (ME/CFS). His Twitter handle calls him “a passionate molecular virologist who...
Systrom at the CDC: The ME/CFS Mitochondrial Drug Trial Fails Plus More
The big news in David Systrom’s “Neurovascular Dysregulation Underlies Exercise Intolerance in ME/CFS” talk at the CDC yesterday was that the $8 million mitochondrial drug trial had, unfortunately, failed. The ME/CFS Mitochondrial Drug Trial Fails...
Mitochondria, Muscles, Microclots and New Treatment Possibilities for ME/CFS and Long COVID: the Ramsay Awards 2022
The Ramsay Awards provide pilot grants that give researchers the ability to gather the data they need to apply for much larger NIH grants. As it has over the past couple of years, the Solve ME Initiative places a heavy focus on funding clinical trials that could...
Cleaning Crisis? Defective Mitochondrial Cleanup In ME/CFS May Be Impairing Energy Production
The mitochondria are a big mystery in ME/CFS and fibromyalgia. Plenty of evidence – most of it from small studies, admittedly – suggests the mitochondria are involved. Nailing down exactly what’s gone wrong has not been easy given the variety of...StudyME
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