by Cort Johnson | Mar 6, 2016 | Community Reports
Most people with ME/CFS are not scientists but they do have a unique experience with ME/CFS and a burning desire to know what the heck is going on. In that vein the ME/CFS Community provided over a hundred suggestions for the NIH’s massive Clinical Center Study....
by Cort Johnson | Feb 20, 2016 | Ampligen, Treatment
Bill Carter – the long-time CEO of Hemispherx Biopharma, the producer of Ampligen, was fired as the company announced new austerity measures. ME/CFS practitioners laud Ampligen but it’s never in 30 years made it to market. It’s been called “A...
by Cort Johnson | Feb 17, 2016 | Homepage, Treatment
She was twenty years old – a competitive skier – complaining of muscle and joint pains, fatigue, gut problems, difficulty sleeping, cognitive problems, difficulty concentrating and tingling sensations. When she tried to exercise the pain in her shoulders...
by Cort Johnson | Feb 4, 2016 | Homepage, Trazodone
In 2011 the CFIDS Association (now the Solve ME/CFS Initiative) engaged a “drug repositioning” company called Biovista to search through thousands of drugs to find a new approach to ME/CFS. Biovista’s algorithm identified “every known gene,...
by Cort Johnson | Jan 14, 2016 | Sleep, Treatment
Health Rising’s Sleep Center for ME/CFS and FM is the first of a series of resource centers Health Rising will create. These Centers are designed to be a kind of one stop shops where people with ME/CFS and FM can go to learn about and find help with sleep, pain,...
by Cort Johnson | Jan 11, 2016 | Fibromyalgia, Homepage, Treatment, Vagus nerve stimulation
With an enormous potential therapeutic gain and a high safety profile, further development and application of VNS is encouraging. Yuan et. Al Vagus nerve stimulation is one of the most promising chronic pain interventions under development today. An earlier blog on...