New Hemispherx President Says Getting Ampligen Approval Top Priority
After the FDA nixed its approval for Ampligen and saddled its producer, Hemispherx Biopharma, with paying for a large new trial, it looked like Ampligen was dead and gone. Francis Collin’s promise to increase ME/CFS funding, however, caused a seismic shift in...
Listen to M.E. Part II: Mike Dessin Goes Down Again – A CFS/ME Relapse Story
I’ve had CFS/ME for 21 years. Nearly 6 years ago I began to recover from a three-year stint of being completely bedridden – the last few months of which I was near death. The first time my doctor saw me he was amazed I was still alive. I was bedridden, emaciated...
Will Ketamine be the Next Big Thing for Pain, Depression (and Fatigue)?
A fibromyalgia doctor just gave the thumbs up to ketamine. So did the past director of the National Institute of Mental Health. They both think ketamine or rather drugs based on it could be the cat’s meow for pain and depression. But ketamine also recently...
A Mayo Clinic Love Story – and the Chink in Their Armor
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...
When an ME/CFS/POTS Patient Responds to a Multiple Sclerosis Drug – What Does It Mean?
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...StudyME
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