East African Disease Informs Nath’s Search for the Cause of ME/CFS
The fact that ME/CFS is a mystery doesn’t daunt the leader of the NIH’s big intramural study on ME/CFS at all. Just a couple of years ago Avindra Nath and his compatriots cracked a mysterious neurodegenerative disease in East Africa that researchers had...
Death in Chronic Fatigue Syndrome (ME/CFS) – What has it Told Us? The Autopsy Files
It’s always hard to lose a loved one, but the deaths in ME/CFS seem particularly hard. They tend to be quite painful, they often take place in the midst of a non-supportive medical system, and they’re a complete mystery. With no seeming way out it’s...
Ramsay’s Continue Focus on the Mitochondria in ME/CFS – Plus, the Hunt for a Drug Target is On (!)
The Solve ME/CFS Initiative’s Ramsay Awards are small grants (@$50K – only in the medical field is 50K small) but potentially mighty grants. They are designed to give researchers the funding to produce pilot data needed to get really big grants – the...
A Grant Generation Machine: The SMCI’s 2016 Ramsay Award Winners Score
As we know, grant applications in chronic fatigue syndrome (ME/CFS) are hard to come by. Freedom of Information Requests indicate that the NIH received the lowest number of ME/CFS grant applications in memory last year – just 15. Since the NIH spends MUCH more...
The Case for IVIG Treatment in Chronic Fatigue Syndrome (ME/CFS), Fibromyalgia, Small Fiber Neuropathy, and POTS : IVIG#3
“The bottom line is that we should rethink this whole area and encourage proper clinical trials.” Dr. Nancy Klimas This article is the last of a three-part series on IVIG which came out of my attending the 2018 Dysautonomia Conference in Nashville, Tennessee. An IVIG...Lives Interrupted Latest Story
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