Medscape’s Chronic Fatigue Syndrome (ME/CFS) Program Reaches Deep into the Medical Community
With its regular news updates, information on drugs and diseases, quizzes, conference overviews, and educational courses, Medscape, which just turned 20 years old, strives to be a kind of one-stop shop for medical professionals (and consumers). It appears to be...
Dr Nath Talks on the ME/CFS NIH Intramural Study
Clutching our little maps we gloomily stared at the rain pelting the grey labyrinth that was the NIH. We were utterly lost and very late for our appointment with Dr. Nath, the leader of the NIH Intramural study on ME/CFS. Thankfully, we eventually found our way and...
The Brainstem, Vagus Nerve, Neuroinflammation and Chronic Fatigue Syndrome: The VanElzakker Way
Jeff’s amazing craniocervical instability story indicated that a damaged brainstem can produce all the symptoms of ME/CFS/FM/POTS. He’s not the first to believe that. Michael VanElzakker, the author of the Vagus Nerve Hypothesis, has believed that for...
Neuroinflammation and Chronic Fatigue Syndrome: The VanElzakker Way
In 2013, Michael VanElzakker produced one of the most intriguing hypotheses to date in ME/CFS. His Vagus Nerve Hypothesis proposed that an infection/inflammation near the vagus nerve was causing it to send an unending stream of messages to the brain, telling it to...
The Clinician’s Coalition: Another Ray of Light for ME/CFS
Filling the Landscape of Unmet Needs After a successful 2017 Working Group meeting at Stanford involving dozens of top researchers, Ron Davis turned to Lucinda Bateman, and said: now you have to do the same thing with doctors. She did. With Mary Dimmock’s help,...Lives Interrupted Latest Story
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