This has a been good week for advocacy. It’s showing 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...
If you live in the U.S. where drugs typically cost 2-6 times more than elsewhere, drug bills can really add up. Buying drugs from international pharmacies can save U.S. consumers a lot of money – but is it safe? Health Rising takes a look in that issue in Buying...
Recovery Recoveries or near recoveries from chronic fatigue syndrome (ME/CFS) and/or fibromyalgia don’t happen often but they do occur. For some recovery stories bring hope and new ideas, but for others they bring up feelings of sadness or frustration. They...
Mending Us Mendus is the brainchild of Joshua Grant, a neuroscientist with chronic fatigue syndrome (ME/CFS). Joshua looked around and saw a mountain of possible treatments with nothing other anecdotal evidence to recommend them. Given that he couldn’t expect...
Alzheimer’s, ME/CFS and FM share at least two things; both inflammation and cognition are involved. Alzheimer’s also costs the U.S. economy over 200 billion a year, is incurable and is for the most part unstoppable – even when using the drugs...
Fear and anxiety. I don’t know about you, but since I came down with chronic fatigue syndrome (ME/’CFS) / fibromyalgia (FM) it seems like those two states of mind are ever present. Fear that I’m suddenly going to get worse, or will have money...
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