People who’ve been treated for Lyme disease and remain ill present a dilemma. Do they still have Lyme disease or did having Lyme disease for a time cause permanent damage or do they have something else? During the Simmaron Research Foundation’s Patient...
Immunologists aren’t interested. Neurologists, in general, are to be avoided. Endocrinologists can’t be bothered. Except for primary care physicians specializing in chronic fatigue syndrome (ME/CFS), the outlook in the medical field for ME/CFS patients is...
“We will get there” Ian Lipkin Ian Lipkin’s had grand plans for ME/CFS for years but hasn’t had the resources to move on them. His recent winning of an ME/CFS research center grant changes that. Check out what the grant means for Lipkin and...
What a dread disease dementia is. At its worst dementia can result in the total loss of one’s personality: loved ones don’t register, reasoning is gone, even simple matters such as dressing and bathing require assistance. Even in its more moderate forms...
And then there were three. Almost two years after Dr. Collins announced that the NIH would reinvigorate ME/CFS, the NIH has finally provided funding for three research centers and one data center. Earlier this year the ME/CFS research community surprised by submitting...
The autonomic nervous system rears its head in fibromyalgia – again. The pattern in fibromyalgia is now pretty clear; the fight/flight (sympathetic nervous system) system is activated even during rest, the heart rate response (chronotropic incompetence) to...
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