The great question for chronic fatigue syndrome and long COVID is: what causes post-exertional malaise (PEM)? The latest study to come out of Nancy Klimas’s Institute for Neuroimmune Medicine – led by Lubov Nathanson (senior author) and directed by Derek...
Mary Anne Fletcher (1937-2023) – In Memoriam I only met Mary Anne a few times, but they were vivid. I remember – years ago – watching with a little awe as she boldly and vociferously called for NIH-funded treatment trials for ME/CFS. She...
“MAJOR ARTICLE” It was good to see a study from a major medical university exploring exercise capacity in long COVID and appearing in a prominent medical journal. The Journal of Infectious Diseases gave it the headline “MAJOR ARTICLE”. It came...
The Epstein-Barr virus (EBV) is back again and it doesn’t look like it’s going to go away anytime soon. In fact, we’ll likely be seeing more and more of this complex virus as time goes on – and hopefully, finally, learn not just what it’s...
The coronavirus is triggering all sorts of diseases other than ME/CFS – that’s good news for anyone with a post-infectious illness We thought the coronavirus would trigger a lot of chronic fatigue syndrome (ME/CFS), and it has. The big surprise is what...
“A lot of what’s happening in CFS is probably not happening in the blood.” Amy Proal If we’re going to get to the promised land, it’s probably going to come through better technology – which is a good thing – as technological...