“Our present study advances a new view of FMS pain that places the pain generator and the site of pain in the same peripheral location—the painful tender muscles. Specifically, this study challenges the prevailing theory of pain in FMS.” Katz et. Al....
The Netherlands and the U.K. have been the epicenter of biopsychosocial research (CBT/GET) into chronic fatigue syndrome (ME/CFS) for the past 20 years or so, but that is changing. In 2018, the Dutch Health Council asserted that “Scientific research on ME/CFS is...
Tracking in at somewhere around $350 million, the Congressionally Directed Medical Research Program (CDMRP) is not a small program. It was created in 1992 to fund novel approaches to “biomedical research in response to the needs … of the American public, the...
David Systrom, a Harvard pulmonologist, uses invasive CPET tests to find that oxygen extraction problems at the muscle level are common in ME/CFS. Chronic fatigue syndrome (ME/CFS) has a reputation for falling through the cracks. Test after test is run to no avail. ...
The Ron Tompkins Effect Ron Tompkins had recently come back from a meeting with over a dozen MD’s and specialists from Mass General Hospital who’d evinced a strong interest in ME/CFS. Dr. Bateman has said it’s easy to get researchers, at least,...
This is the first in a series of blogs that report on the recent EMERGE conference in Australia. The different conference format – which allowed for long presentations – allowed the presenters to dig more deeply into their topics than usual. Longtime...
