Post Lyme Disease and Chronic Fatigue Syndrome (ME/CFS) – Are They The Same?
People who have chronic Lyme disease are a mystery in the same way that people with ME/CFS who come down with an infection and never recover are. A recent study that asked why chronic Lyme patients don’t recover could have implications for ME/CFS. It also asked...
Is Alzheimer’s Caused by an Infection? (And Why it Might Matter for ME/CFS and FM)
Alzheimer’s presents one of the great dilemma’s facing our medical system. With prevalence and costs ever rising and no good treatments in sight money is pouring into studies trying to understand it. A recent study presented a shocking conclusion:...
Can Simple Blood Tests Help to Identify Chronic Fatigue Syndrome (ME/CFS)?
Six months after an adolescent comes down with infectious mononucleosis/glandular fever she’s still exhausted – and her doctor is about to tell her she’s depressed and send her to a psychiatrist. But what if a very simple blood test – one that...
Avindra Nath: Top Central Nervous System Infection Researcher to Speak on ME/CFS at CDC Meeting
It was painful to read the NIH’s response to CFSAC’s recommendations, but the NIH next did a very interesting thing. They’re sending an internationally known researcher specializing in central nervous system infections to speak at the CDC’s...
How to Turn an Infection Into a Chronic Illness
Acute infections represent frequent and violent tissue perturbations from which the immune system must rapidly rebound. Fonseca et. al. Researchers have long believed that infections can kick off inflammatory diseases, but the link between an infection and a long term...Lives Interrupted Latest Story
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