Dan Neuffer on Recovery From ME/CFS and FM Pt. 3: Who Can Recover?
This is the 3rd in a series of interviews with Dan Neuffer. The creator of the ANS Rewired program and the author of CFS Unravelled, Dan has been exploring the world of recovery from chronic fatigue syndrome (ME/CFS), fibromyalgia (FM) and related diseases for over...
The 2023 NIH ME/CFS Conference is Coming – Register Soon!
An Interesting Time for ME/CFS at the NIH National Institutes of Health (NIH) Conferences on ME/CFS are rare events - the last one was four years ago. They're important in several ways - for one, because they have the imprimatur of the NIH, they're more likely to...
Three Severely Ill Long COVID Patients – Three Rapid Recoveries: Monoclonal Antibodies, LC and ME/CFS
Every now and then my mouth gapes open with I read a paper. While the limitations of this paper must be noted - a small sample set involving three case reports - its conclusion - a very rapid return to health of people with severe long-term COVID - makes one sit up...
Health Rising’s 2023 BIG (little) Year End Fundraising Drive is On!
It's that time again. It's Health Rising's BIG, BIG, BIG (but also little) fundraising drive. It's big in that it's when we get more support at this time of the year than other but little in that we don't need what the big organizations do. We don't have expensive...
The Re-Infection Question in Long COVID, ME/CFS and Post-Infectious Diseases
"This pandemic shone a very, very good light on the idea that there is really an intimate connection between infections and chronic disease. It was really hardwired into our medical training as doctors that most infections, when people get over the hump of the acute...
The Great Divide Pt II: The Supporter – Anthony Fauci on ME/CFS and Long COVID
Anthony Fauci's take on ME/CFS, long COVID, and other post-infectious diseases provides an informative counterpoint to Phillips and Williams's stunning proposition that federal funders "prioritize care delivery over research" - thus essentially freezing those research...
The Great Divide: Pt. I – the Long-COVID Defeatists: Miller and Williams Assert its “Game Over” for ME/CFS and Long COVID
Nothing speaks to the strangeness of the place long COVID and chronic fatigue syndrome (ME/CFS) inhabit in the medical sphere than two recent opinion pieces: Anthony Fauci - the man who cast the ME/CFS program out of the NIAID and into the wilderness at the NIH (where...
Simmaron’s ME/CFS Trial of Rapamycin – a Mitochondrial Enhancer – to Begin Soon
Clinical trials - once a rarity for chronic fatigue syndrome (ME/CFS) - suddenly seem to be popping up all around the place. The Open Medicine Foundation just announced its first two-fer (two drugs tested together) clinical trial, Solve M.E. has funded at least 4...
Lifting ME/CFS: The OMF’s Unique Two-Drug Clinical Trial to Begin Soon
Filling a Gaping Hole ME/CFS organizations have been doing something different lately. Long focused purely on research, they've been putting more resources into treatment trials lately - suggesting they feel more confident about moving forward in that arena - a good...