This blog asks if it’s possible to reduce the PEM period by doing things other than resting. It’s a long blog – you may want to print it out using the print button on the bottom left of the blog. About 5 years ago, Health Rising did a post on...
“Consider that larger clinical trials are often meant to confirm something important to change our practice. The small trials are the ones making conceptual breakthroughs that change our thinking.” Aaron Cypess, M.D., Ph.D., M.M.Sc., National Institute of...
“If you don’t get a good night’s sleep, you’re not going to get well. It really is that simple”. Dr. Rodger Murphee This is part IV in an ongoing sleep series from Health Rising that attempts to understand why the notoriously bad sleep in chronic fatigue...
Insomnia may be common but much is still unknown about it. We know, for instance, that different types of insomnia exist, but the authors of a recent paper “Effects of trazodone versus cognitive behavioral therapy in insomnia with short sleep duration phenotype:...
Mestinon moves the needle on ME/CFS in unusual one-shot exercise study This is the most unusual clinical trial/study that I’ve come across. Too short to be a full-blown clinical trial, it was essentially a short-term test of the idea that problems with...
An $8 million clinical trial of a mitochondrial enhancer, no less, in ME/CFS? I thought I was hearing things but it was so, and, in the end, it even makes sense given how rapidly some parts of this field are moving forward. But first, a little backstory. A...