If you think ME/CFS and FM are behind the eight ball at the NIH, then check out postural orthostatic tachycardia syndrome (POTS), a common comorbidity. The NIH doesn’t even measure POTS funding but then how could it? POTS doesn’t even have a designated...
Carmen Scheibenbogen is unusual. Not only has she become one of the most prolific ME/CFS researchers of the past few years but she’s doing her research from a country – Germany – which hardly acknowledges the disease’s existence. Plus,...
Difference-Maker Unlike FMS, SFPN has identifiable pathology, physiology, and causes, and thus is definitionally a disease. Oaklander et. Al. Dr. Anne Oaklander MD, PhD, is making a difference – maybe a very big difference in the lives of many. Making a...
The outcome of a positive Rituximab trial for ME/CFS – possibly, finally, an FDA approved drug, relief for many, acceptance for this disease, increased research funding – would have been spectacular but Dr. Mella reported this week in Norway that the trial...
Subsets, Subsets, Subsets Everyone with ME/CFS who’s been around a bit must ask themselves at some point, “Do I have what she or he has?” Some people do great on treatments that others fail on. Some people get really, really sick while others...
A Different Look at the Immune System The ultimate goal of this work is the development of a non-subjective clinical tool for diagnosing patients with ME. Lombardi et. al. Last month Health Rising looked at a potential ion channel biomarker coming out of the NCNED in...
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