Both fibromyalgia (FM) and chronic fatigue syndrome (ME/CFS) clearly need better treatments. The FDA-approved drugs for these diseases are too often ineffective, come with too many side effects (fibromyalgia) or just aren’t available at all (ME/CFS). Too many...
Dr. Peterson’s been using Ampligen in ME/CFS for 27 years. It seems like the drug has been sitting in limbo regarding ME/CFS forever – yet Ampligen is just one phase 3 trial away from becoming the first FDA-approved drug for ME/CFS – and no other...
I think that my patients are some of the bravest, most stalwart individuals ever, and I admire them sincerely. Charles Lapp Dr. Lapp’s path to medicine and then into chronic fatigue syndrome (ME/CFS) and fibromyalgia (FM) was an unusual one. Lapp graduated from...
Treatments are, of course, where the rubber meets the road. The Oct 2016 conference featured a different chemotherapy/autoimmune drug that appears to be helping, a drug that helped one ME/CFS/POTS patient to fully recover, how exercise tests may be uncovering drug...
Ampligen became the first drug ever approved for use in ME/CFS when ANMAT, Argentine’s FDA, approved the drug for use in severe ME/CFS patients. The approval should provide a clear pathway for Ampligen’s approval elsewhere. The U.S. is the odd man out in...
With a UK trial for Rituximab at least temporarily in doubt, let’s turn the focus to Ampligen – a drug that is potentially one trial away from being approved for ME/CFS. Ampligen is still the only drug that’s been able to move the needle on exercise...