by Cort Johnson | Apr 4, 2016 | Homepage, Orthostatic intolerance, Treatment
The Mayo Clinic is where people with difficult to diagnose and treat diseases go. The Mayo Clinic’s Rochester Hospital was recently ranked the best in the world. For many ME/CFS and FM patients, though, the Mayo has been more a place to stay away from than to...
by Cort Johnson | Mar 30, 2016 | Treatment
Rachel had ME/CFS but she’d been misdiagnosed with multiple sclerosis. That might sound like bad news but it wasn’t. She ended up responding so well to an MS drug that her doctors didn’t know what to think about it. They’d never seen anything...
by Cort Johnson | Mar 28, 2016 | Fibromyalgia, Homepage, Opioid drugs, Treatment
Opioid Painkillers Under Attack Opioid based pain drugs have dominated the pain relief marketplace for years but their dominance has more reflected a lack of other options than anything else. They’re quite effective at reducing acute pain but not so good at with...
by Cort Johnson | Mar 26, 2016 | CBT-GET
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 Cort Johnson | Mar 17, 2016 | Fibromyalgia, Homepage, Opioids, Treatment
Citing statistics indicating that 40 people die every day in the U.S. from prescription pain killer overdose, CDC director Tom Frieden bluntly called for doctors to stop over prescribing the drugs. The CDC’s voluntary guidelines called for opioid pain killers...
by Cort Johnson | Mar 8, 2016 | Brain, Homepage, Low Dose Naltrexone, Neuroinflammation, Research, Treatment
Jarred Younger was lured away from Stanford by a University that wanted to get a lead in an emerging field. By definition emerging fields are not quite there yet…they’re emerging. Picking a winner in the medical field sweepstakes may be a bit like backing...