The NIH’s Five Year Funding Increase for Chronic Fatigue Syndrome (ME/CFS): Does it Pass Muster?
In November 2015 NIH Director Francis Coillins said that NIH was going to “ramp up” funding for ME/CFS and that it would be “substantially greater” than the current five or six million dollars a year the disease was getting. “Just watch...
The Brain Initiative: A Boon For Fibromyalgia and Chronic Fatigue Syndrome (ME/CFS) ?
The bad news for fibromyalgia and ME/CFS is that the most complex, impenetrable and difficult to understand organ of all – the brain – appears to be heavily involved in both diseases. The good news is that the NIH aims to leapfrog its ability to understand...
The Great NIH Exercise Initiative: A Boon for Chronic Fatigue Syndrome (ME/CFS) and Fibromyalgia?
The NIH under Dr. Francis Collins has poured out major initiatives, none of which may be more meaningful for ME/CFS than the “Great Exercise Initiative” (my name). We know at the coarse level what happens during exercise but we know little about what...
SPARC-ing an Electroceutical Revolution – A Fibromyalgia and ME/CFS Perspective
SPARC The NIH’s Stimulating Peripheral Activity to Relieve Conditions (SPARC) is exploring an entirely new way of treating disease. It proposes to tweak the electrical circuits (nerves) in our bodies to return people to health. These nerves (every nerve outside...
Losing Brain Matter – the Fibromyalgia Way
Many voxel based brain studies have been done in fibromyalgia. These studies, which measure brain volume, have found reductions in gray matter (the stuff that makes up the neurons) in many brain regions including the frontal, cingulate, insular and motor cortices plus...StudyME
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