If any treatment has promise, vagus nerve stimulation (VNS) does. Through its stimulation of the rest/digest system (the parasympathetic nervous system (PNS)), VNS has the potential to tamp down the fight/flight system that seems to be raging in chronic fatigue...
From the beginning, the RECOVER Initiative has focused on building out the massive infrastructure needed to follow and study approximately 18,000 participants. Hundreds of millions of dollars have been spent creating the main thrust of the Initiative. About a year...
Can we please stop pretending that it is? Note: In the following text I refer to “ME” to mean “ME not caused by Covid”. This is not technically correct, but done for simplicity. Prior to covid, there was little hope for people with ME. Less than 5% recover & it is...
“Millions of people continue to suffer from exhaustion, cognitive problems and other long-lasting symptoms after a coronavirus infection. The exact causes of the illness, known as long Covid, are not known. But new research offers clues, describing the toll the...
The Solve ME Initiative’s Ramsay Awards play an important role in the ME/CFS research field. Consisting of small grants designed to generate enough data to allow researchers to get bigger grants, they’ve supported many prominent ME/CFS researchers...
An “investigational new drug” (IND) application to treat chronic fatigue syndrome (ME/CFS )and long COVID has been filed with the FDA. We don’t see INDs – the documents that begin the drug trial process at the FDA – very often in ME/CFS....
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