Is New Inflammation Test Tailor Made for Chronic Fatigue Syndrome (ME/CFS)?
Many people suspect that inflammation plays a major role in both ME/CFS and fibromyalgia yet standard tests are usually negative. However, a new inflammation test being developed at Stanford by a researcher (who’s also doing work on ME/CFS) could change that....
Relief at Last? The Next Generation of Opioid Drugs, Fibromyalgia and Chronic Pain
Twenty billion dollars a year… That’s how much Americans in chronic pain spend on prescription pain-killers every year. Most of these are opioid drugs, but the increasing regulatory burden foisted on them and the growing realization of how ineffective and...
The Beast, the Disease and the Breakthrough: A Way Forward for ME/CFS and Fibromyalgia?
A Young Doctor Fights to Cure His Own Rare, Deadly Disease His Doctors Were Stumped. Then He Took Over. The “Beast” was just twenty-five years old. A physical specimen, David Fajgenbaum went from gym rat to invalid incredibly quickly. First his lymph nodes...
Chronic Fatigue Syndrome Studies Link Autonomic Nervous System Problems to Brain
Dr. Barnden of the National Centre for NeuroImmnology and Emerging Diseases (NCNED) in Griffith University, Australia has been doing some fascinating brain imaging work in chronic fatigue syndrome (ME/CFS). Over the past six years Barnden has been publishing results...
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...StudyME
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