More Than Skin-Deep: The Small Nerve Fiber Problems in Fibromyalgia – A Review
We don’t generally connect fibromyalgia with skin problems. The skin, though, may present an important window into what’s going on in fibromyalgia. We use the blood vessels and sweat glands in our skin to warm or cool us. Both blood flows and sweat glands...
Avindra Nath: Top Central Nervous System Infection Researcher to Speak on ME/CFS at CDC Meeting
It was painful to read the NIH’s response to CFSAC’s recommendations, but the NIH next did a very interesting thing. They’re sending an internationally known researcher specializing in central nervous system infections to speak at the CDC’s...
Walking and Thinking – Not a Good Combo in Chronic Fatigue Syndrome (ME/CFS)
Walking can be a real problem for people with ME/CFS but when researchers asked them to walk and think at the same time the problems really started to show up. Find out what happened in (and take the poll – how is your walking going?) in Walking and Thinking...Fibromyalgia: A Very Different Disease
Fibromyalgia recently went toe to toe with some heavyweight diseases at an Isreali hospital. The researchers asked the patients of about 20 different rheumatic diseases to describe their pain, fatigue and functional levels. Then they stacked them up against each...
The Best, Least, Biggest and Strangest: An ME/CFS and FM Look Back at 2015
News, People and Organizations Biggest Gut Punches to the Federal Neglect of ME/CFS – Two federally funded reports land a gut punch to the NIH’s historical neglect of chronic fatigue syndrome (ME/CFS). They both call for urgent increases in support....StudyME
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