Researchers used a broad brush when they focused on the most easily understood aspect of the disorder – fatigue. Now, in this bold and provocative blog, the first part of a four-part series called “A Neuroinflammatory Model of ME/CFS”, guest...
We’re stuck in the doldrums as the federal level with little funding and little support but that doesn’t mean stagnation. With several major studies wrapping up 2013 will be a very important year for this disorder. Check out some of the events and...
Backdrop 2012 was graced by the publication of roughly 102 research and treatment studies on chronic fatigue syndrome in scientific journals. (This figure does not include letters, theory papers, reviews…) One hundred and two research and treatment studies sounds...
When people with ME/CFS say they’re not the same person they used to be, it’s not just physical illness they’re talking about it; for many the ‘mental component’; the loss of sharpness, of focus, of the ‘cognitive grace’ they...
The Disappearing Pathogen Puzzle There’s no doubt that Lyme is a serious threat. Approximately 20-30,000 people get Lyme disease from deer tick bites every year. Untreated the bacteria can cause heart, neurological problems and arthritis. Treated, the symptoms...
Could a small lab in the Central Valley of California shake the CFS research field with a quake of epic proportions? Change how the disease is viewed? How its defined? Legitimize the disease once and for all? Its possible that given enough resources that the Workwell...
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