The fact that ME/CFS is a mystery doesn’t daunt the leader of the NIH’s big intramural study on ME/CFS at all. Just a couple of years ago Avindra Nath and his compatriots cracked a mysterious neurodegenerative disease in East Africa that researchers had...
The NIH’s Intramural study constitutes the biggest “fishing expedition” ever done in this disease. From stays in metabolic chambers, to ME/CFS patients immune systems being transplanted into mice, to their “brains” (neurons) being grown...
The NIH held a telebriefing with about 100 ME/CFS advocates, researchers and supporters Tuesday morning. This overview is taken from my notes of the meeting. The Big Three – Dr. Francis Collins, Dr. Koroshetz and Dr. Nath – were all there – and that...
Thanks to Simon and MEAction for allowing Health Rising to post Simon’s exposition of the truly remarkable chronic fatigue syndrome (ME/CFS) study about to take place at the NIH. This blog first appeared on MEAction. Most images and captions were added by me...
Dr. Avindra Nath laid out a three pronged strategy to develop treatments for ME/CFS at the CDC’s Grand Rounds meeting today. The first step is the Clinical Center Study soon to begin. The second step will validate the biomarkers found in the first study. The...
