by Cort Johnson | Aug 18, 2016 | Homepage, Mind/body, Treatment
This has a been good week for advocacy. It’s shown that smart advocacy works. Twice advocates went straight back into “the system” looking for results and twice – once with the PACE trial and here with AHRQ report in the U.S. – they got... 
by Cort Johnson | Mar 26, 2016 | Mind/body, Treatment
The PACE trial has taken its hits – plenty of them but it’s never taken a hit like this – a full blown critique by the head of a statistical organization. With it’s publisher Lancet still deflecting inquiries the PACE trial is still alive but... 
by Linn Cole | Aug 31, 2014 | Homepage, Mind/body
I learned to meditate in 2007 and developed CFS in 2011. In the three years in between, I participated in some 20 retreats of 2 to 14 days in length. Yes, meditation is addictive (in the best way possible). Yet since I became sick, I’ve mostly discarded... 
by Cort Johnson | Aug 10, 2014 | Homepage, Mind/body
(A continuing series of blogs on “The Last Best Cure“; one woman’s attempt to find joy and improve her health while battling an autoimmune disorder.) “The good news is that we are not our thoughts.” – Clifford Saron, PhD, Center for Mind and... 
by Cort Johnson | Aug 4, 2014 | Homepage, Mind/body
Stress management skills, cortisol awakening response, and post-exertional malaise in Chronic Fatigue Syndrome Daniel L. Hall a,∗, Emily G. Lattie a, Michael H. Antonia, Mary Ann Fletcherb, Sara Czajac, Dolores Perdomoc, Nancy G. Klimasb. Psychoneuroendocrinology... 
by Sue Camaradoes | Jul 12, 2014 | Homepage, Mind/body
(As we’ve seen in past blogs and as we’ll see with Donna in the Last Best Cure blog series, mindfulness practices – such as the gratitude practices Sue writes about below, if engaged in regularly – can bring benefits both to the quality of life...
