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...
The big news in David Systrom’s “Neurovascular Dysregulation Underlies Exercise Intolerance in ME/CFS” talk at the CDC yesterday was that the $8 million mitochondrial drug trial had, unfortunately, failed. The ME/CFS Mitochondrial Drug Trial Fails...
The Ramsay Awards provide pilot grants that give researchers the ability to gather the data they need to apply for much larger NIH grants. As it has over the past couple of years, the Solve ME Initiative places a heavy focus on funding clinical trials that could...
Step by step Lipkin’s metabolomic study produces a coherent picture of mitochondrial dysfunction The really neat thing about Ian Lipkin’s latest work on ME/CFS is how well all the results fit together. Health Rising reported on the preprint of this...
Fibromyalgia (FM) researchers recently pointed an arrow at a rarely studied part of the brain – the brainstem – and proposed that a “convergence of autonomic regulation and pain modulation systems” had occurred in FM. The Brainstem – Is...
The Breathing/Oxygen series on Health Rising continues with a rare clinical trial in chronic fatigue syndrome (ME/CFS) that’s designed to improve breathing, increase blood CO2 levels, and hopefully improve a wide number of symptoms. The Breathing/Oxygen Series...
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