Growing Pains The NIH’s RECOVER Initiative has not exactly been garnering a lot of praise. On the plus side, the NIH has clearly given the project a lot of thought and put together a program designed to produce meaningful results; i.e. results that stick. No...
I found Health Rising a few years ago, but I only started subscribing to receive it in my inbox in mid-2022. Feeling like I had found the best-centralized source of information on long COVID and ME/CFS, I reached out to Cort to make a recurring donation. We got to...
Is the RECOVER Initiative listening to 30 years of experience? Time will tell. The RECOVER Initiative is not just a big deal for long COVID; it’s potentially a very big deal for chronic fatigue syndrome (ME/CFS), post-treatment Lyme disease syndrome,...
Three years after the pandemic had destroyed any attempt to get back to the East Coast and Washington, DC, I was back in Avindra Nath’s office at the NIH’s huge Clinical Center. The world’s largest hospital that’s devoted entirely to clinical...
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...
This blog asks if it’s possible to reduce the PEM period by doing things other than resting. It’s a long blog – you may want to print it out using the print button on the bottom left of the blog. About 5 years ago, Health Rising did a post on...
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