Healing Chronic Pain? An Update on the NIH’s $2 Billion HEAL Project to End Chronic Pain
“If you think research is expensive, try disease.”—Mary Lasker (NIGMS, 2011) If any medical field needs help, it’s chronic pain. It’s remarkable, indeed, that the treatment options for a field that affects so many and has such huge economic and...
No Neuroinflammation Needed? An Epic ME/CFS Hypothesis Series Winds Up
Epic ME/CFS Hypothesis Series Not many people have taken their shot at completely explaining chronic fatigue syndrome (ME/CFS), but of those that have, Wirth and Scheibenbogen’s epic three-part hypothesis series takes the cake. If the goal of a hypothesis is to...
Coronavirus Infections Found to Shrink Parts of the Brain
“An Outstanding study” Avindra Nath The UK Biobank study, “SARS-CoV-2 is associated with changes in brain structure in UK Biobank”, published in the Nature journal, no less, is the first of many of its type we are likely to see over the next...
How Long COVID and Chronic Fatigue Syndrome (ME/CFS) Exhaust the Body
“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...
Exercise Challenge Reveals a “Remarkable Discordance” in the Brains of People with ME/CFS
There’s nothing like an exercise test to bring out the best, or rather the worst in chronic fatigue syndrome (ME/CFS), and if one exercise test is good, two are surely better. In “Submaximal Exercise Provokes Increased Activation of the Anterior Default...Lives Interrupted Latest Story
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