Following the XMRV controversy in 2011 Simon Wessely told the prestigious Nature journal that most researchers would rather work on images of Allah (forbidden by Islam) than ME/CFS. Wessely turned out to be wrong. In 2017 Nature reported stated that ME/CFS is now more...
A Different Look at the Immune System The ultimate goal of this work is the development of a non-subjective clinical tool for diagnosing patients with ME. Lombardi et. al. Last month Health Rising looked at a potential ion channel biomarker coming out of the NCNED in...
The Open Medicine Foundation released two videos of Ron Davis talking about their work over the past couple of weeks. I got a chance to talk to Davis twice since then and to flesh out a bit more what he’s doing right now. As most people probably know, the Davis...
Hot Story The media reports have been sizzling! Griffith University, the home of the NCNED group in Australia that produced the study, called it “groundbreaking”. IFL Science lead off with a piece called “People With Chronic Fatigue Have A Defective...
What can you expect if you have fibromyalgia? Do most people tend to get better or worse? Do people with FM ever recover and, if so, how many people do? Several studies have examined the progression of fibromyalgia over time. Bearing in mind two things: (a) studies...
Dr. Light has said that he wants to do for fatigue what researchers have done for pain; that is uncover the molecular pathways that cause fatigue. Some time ago Light presented one of the most spectacular graphs of ME/CFS ever done. I still remember the gasp that...
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