Studies thus far indicate the long COVID and chronic fatigue syndrome (ME/CFS) may be exhausting the body in similar ways via viral persistence, autoimmunity, circulatory and blood issues and small fiber neuropathy.
“It’s the first real solid attempt to come up with some biologic mechanisms for long Covid,” said Dr. Steven Deeks. A large and complex long-COVID study was recently published. It’s one of the first major studies to follow large numbers of long-COVID patients...
As Carmen Scheibenbogen’s group was tracking down autoantibodies that affect the blood vessel functioning in chronic fatigue syndrome (ME/CFS), a small German group called Berlin Cures was using a different assay to assess the same autoantibodies in heart...
Friendly Fire? Recent studies featuring potentially game-changing blood vessel problems in ME/CFS/FM and long COVID have been illuminating but have lacked a crucial component: how it all started. A July study led by Edward Yang and fellow Yale researchers published in...
The Norwegians are doing it again – reminding us that the fight to understand ME/CFS/FM is an international effort and that crucial insights are coming in from across the globe. The Norwegian odyssey has been interesting. Fluge and Mella began with an...
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