by Cort Johnson | Feb 19, 2020 | Drugs, Fibromyalgia, Homepage, Lyrica, Treatment
Did the FDA mess up the biggest fibromyalgia drug trial ever? The trial authors propose that changes the FDA made doomed the putative replacement for Lyrica called mirogabalin - and could impair future drugs from becoming approved.
by Cort Johnson | Feb 3, 2020 | Homepage, Rituximab
It was a project birthed in hope. Pal Schaathun, a Norwegian filmmaker would document what he hoped might be the end of chronic fatigue syndrome (ME/CFS). That, unfortunately, turned out not to be but Schaathun ended up documenting – in strikingly beautiful...
by Cort Johnson | Jan 28, 2020 | Antivirals, Homepage, Pridgen, Treatment
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...
by Cort Johnson | Jan 25, 2020 | Diet, Homepage, Mind/body, Mindfulness, Tools For Better Health, Treatment
Last March, I trudged out to the van to install a solar panel. I’d been fighting a cold but this was something thing I dearly wanted to get done. In general, I felt a little activity had been helpful with colds. This time, it was different. The work took longer...
by Cort Johnson | Jan 17, 2020 | Homepage, Recovery stories
In 2015, Dean Echenberg, MD, PhD, a former public health official and Director of Disease Control in San Francisco at the height of the HIV/AIDS epidemic, had a question. His own course of ME/CFS had been anything but smooth. Echenberg had experienced years of illness...
by Christine Reesor | Jan 5, 2020 | Alternative Health, Homepage, Mind/body, Recovery stories, Treatment
Christine, a nurse, describes her journey from very severe chronic fatigue syndrome to health through the use of Annie Hopper's Dynamic Neural Retraining Syndrome.