As we enter a second month of a more or less complete shutdown of the economy, a burning question arose – what the heck was going on with our precious chronic fatigue syndrome (ME/CFS) research? Was it stuck in neutral or proceeding? Had our researchers, like...
The National Institutes of Health (NIH), with its pitiful funding, has been a thorn in the ME/CFS community’s side for decades. For decades advocates have thrown everything they could – heartbreaking stories, demonstrations, insults – at the NIH in...
The NANDS Council Working Group for ME/CFS Research is a NINDS (National Institute of Neurological Disorders and Stroke) effort designed to get NINDS off its butt (so to speak) and accelerate the research done on ME/CFS. It will ask NANDS – the group which...
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...
VIcky Whittemore and Dr. Koroshetz head the Trans NIH Working group for ME/CFS which is leading the charge to reinvigorate chronic fatigue syndrome (ME/CFS) research at the NIH. As the largest research funder in the world NIH funded research plays a major in the...
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