Healing Chronic Pain? An Update on the NIH’s $2 Billion HEAL Project to End Chronic Pain
The NIH' HEAL has spent $2 billion trying to figure out a way to treat chronic pain and end addiction. How's it doing and will it help fibromyalgia?
Seeing ME/CFS: Creating the First Mouse Models for the Disease
The development of two mouse models for chronic fatigue syndrome could reap dividends for our understanding and the development of treatments for the disease.
A Herpesvirus for Fibromyalgia? Active Herpes Simplex Virus Found in FM Patients’ Guts
Active herpes simplex virus found in the guts of fibromyalgia patients could be contributing to or causing the disease. An antiviral trial is under way.
Immune Cells May Be Killing the Small Nerve Fibers in Fibromyalgia
Immune cells called natural killer cells may be killing the small nerve fibers found in the skin, eyes and elsewhere in fibromyalgia.
$8 Million Clinical Trial of a Mitochondrial Booster Underway in ME/CFS
An $8 million mitochondrial study underway in chronic fatigue syndrome (ME/CFS) attempts to improve the ability to exercise.StudyME
Enroll in the OMF’s StudyME project and help bring about a cure for ME/CFS, fibromyalgia, POTS and long COVID.
