ME/CFS Funding Worsens As NIH Maintains Status Quo
A FOIA and Jennie Spotila’s analyses indicate the NIH funding for ME/CFS is heading in the wrong direction. Into the Dark Side Researchers abandoning the NIH? Significant drops in funding? Who could have imagined it would have gone this way four years ago when...
A Wing, A Prayer and Vicky Whittemore: The NIH and Chronic Fatigue Syndrome in 2018
“I think some people are angry for good reason. This disease hasn’t gotten enough attention.” Vicky Whittemore My partner and I made our way to Vicky Whittemore’s office in a building off the NIH campus. Security was tight as always. We signed in...
HEAL II: The NIH’s Big Opioid and Pain Initiative Gets More Teeth
The HEAL Initiative (Helping End Addiction Long Term) is one of the rare NIH initiatives that presents real possibilities for a long neglected population. It took an act of Congress – which gave the NIH $500 million and specifically directed them to use it attack...
The NIH’s Five Year Funding Increase for Chronic Fatigue Syndrome (ME/CFS): Does it Pass Muster?
In November 2015 NIH Director Francis Coillins said that NIH was going to “ramp up” funding for ME/CFS and that it would be “substantially greater” than the current five or six million dollars a year the disease was getting. “Just watch...Lives Interrupted Latest Story
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