Bias, Orthodoxy and Suffering: the Lyme Disease Squeeze
A series of recent articles have laid bare the Lyme disease problem in the U.S with startling clarity. Given the disease’s remarkable spread in forty years (it was identified in Connecticut in the 1970’s), many people with mysterious fatigue and pain...
Major Research Group Highlights Inflammation Energy Production Connection in ME/CFS
We all pretty much assume that inflammation and metabolic and energy production problems come together to produce fatigue in ME/CFS. Surprisingly, though, except for in one field, very little study in the medical field has been devoted to proving that. A recent review...
Ron Davis (Finally) Gets His Big Grant!
“This proposal aims to uncover the immunological basis of ME/CFS”. Ron Davis – grant application Sometimes the third time is the charm. Ron Davis has gotten (and been turned down for) many NIH grants but even he was shocked by the response to his...
HEAL II: The NIH’s Big Opioid and Pain Initiative Gets More Teeth
The HEAL Initiative (Helping End Addiction Long Term) is one of the rare NIH initiatives that presents real possibilities for a long neglected population. It took an act of Congress – which gave the NIH $500 million and specifically directed them to use it attack...
Dyamic Duo: Lucinda Bateman and Ron Davis Rock the Brain Science Conference
Dynamic Duo It seemed like a dicey thing – a talk on chronic fatigue syndrome (ME/CFS) that seemingly had little to do with the conference. The Brain Science Conference is a small conference series which began in 1990 and has been going ever since. Its goal is...Lives Interrupted Latest Story
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