2018 Dysautonomia International Conference I: Small Fiber Neuropathy, POTS, MCAS and Vagus Nerve Stimulation
Surprises Off all the cities I drove through on the Vegas to Florida to D.C. to Nashville to Birmingham to Tuscaloosa to St Louis, Kansas City and then on to Denver, Nashville was the biggest surprise. It’s not a big city, but cranes are everywhere lifting new,...
New Chronic Fatigue Syndrome (ME/CFS) Research Center at Harvard Fulfills Crucial Need
In May the Open Medicine Foundation announced they’d committed a major chunk of change – $1.8 million – to fund an ME/CFS Collaborative Research Center at Harvard Medical School affiliated hospitals. With the addition of the Harvard Center, chronic...
Bias, Orthodoxy and Suffering: the Lyme Disease Squeeze
A series of recent articles have laid bare the Lyme disease problem in the U.S with startling clarity. Given the disease’s remarkable spread in forty years (it was identified in Connecticut in the 1970’s), many people with mysterious fatigue and pain...
Major Research Group Highlights Inflammation Energy Production Connection in ME/CFS
We all pretty much assume that inflammation and metabolic and energy production problems come together to produce fatigue in ME/CFS. Surprisingly, though, except for in one field, very little study in the medical field has been devoted to proving that. A recent review...
Ron Davis (Finally) Gets His Big Grant!
“This proposal aims to uncover the immunological basis of ME/CFS”. Ron Davis – grant application Sometimes the third time is the charm. Ron Davis has gotten (and been turned down for) many NIH grants but even he was shocked by the response to his...StudyME
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