The question must have rattled through everyone’s mind at some point. Why me and not you? Why did you get over that cold while I never did? It’s one of the great questions in the chronic fatigue syndrome (field). Stabs have been taken at it before –...
There has been a lot of talk about how the symptoms of the PASC (Post-Acute Sequelae of SARS-CoV-2 Infection) patients – hereafter referred to as long-COVID patients – are similar to people with chronic fatigue syndrome (ME/CFS) but, until now, no studies...
Leonard Jason and Ben Katz have been concerned that pediatric patients (generally assumed to be from 0-18 years of age) have been given short shrift for awhile. In their 2012 article, “Pediatric Myalgic Encephalomyelitis/Chronic Fatigue Syndrome”, they...
Leonard Jason, ME/CFS’s foremost epidemiologist and researcher/advocate requests that you tell him what the heck happens when you engage in physical and cognitive exertion. The survey grew out of extensive discussions with the patient community during the public...
Clearly, issues concerning reliability of clinical diagnosis are complex and have important research and practical implications. Jason et. al In the beginning of his overview on the IOM definition and name change Jason notes the numerous false starts and botched...
