We’re moving into a prime advocacy period. This is the second of a series of blogs on advocacy that are going to appear over the next month. The first focused on the big advocacy event of the year – the Solve ME/CFS Initiative’s Lobby Day. If...
A riff on Dr. Peter Rowe’s presentation at the 2020 Dysautonomia International Conference (note that I expand on many of Rowe’s points; i.e. not all the words are his.) Lauren Stiles, the founder of Dysautonomia International, has long believed that the...
We recommend that all ME/CFS and Fibromyalgia patients have a NASA 10-minute Lean Test to assess for orthostatic intolerance. Batetman Horne Center The saga of the effort to introduce and validate the NASA Lean Test (NLT) for ME/CFS just seems so right in so many...
Sustained Stimulation of β2- and β3-adrenergic Receptors Leads to Persistent Functional Pain and Neuroinflammation. Xin Zhang, MD, PhD, Jane E. Hartung PhD, […], and Andrea G. Nackley PhD, PhD. Brain Behav Immun 2018 Oct;73:520-532. doi:...
Take a look back a ten years of work to scientifically redefine how ME/CFS is researched and treated. Check out the big ground-breaking spinal fluid studies, the “The Peterson Subset”,the illuminating gut and natural killer cell studies, the Vistide report...
I was a bit anxious as I waited for Dr. Pridgen to pick up. It had been a year and a half since we talked and I had heard nothing. Given Pridgen’s approach – using antivirals in a disease (fibromyalgia) that few connected with pathogens – his...
