Lighting a Spark: Major New Long-COVID Initiative Promises Rapid Movement
It’s nice to have a billionaire in your corner. Earlier this year, billionaire Vitalik Buterin pledged to devote $100 million to high-risk, high-reward COVID-19 efforts. He made good on at least $15 million of that when he jumpstarted The Long COVID...
Ischemia-Reperfusion Hypothesis Opens New Treatment Options for Long COVID, Fibromyalgia and ME/CFS
Ischemia–reperfusion injury, hypoxia–reperfusion injury, or reoxygenation injury – whatever name you wish to call it – occurs when a low oxygen state in the tissues is followed by a resumption of normal oxygen flows. Oddly enough, it’s during the...
The Long-COVID Treatment Trials Thus Far: Winners, Losers and the In-Betweeners
“Consider that larger clinical trials are often meant to confirm something important to change our practice. The small trials are the ones making conceptual breakthroughs that change our thinking.” Aaron Cypess, M.D., Ph.D., M.M.Sc., National Institute of...
“How Long?” For People with Long COVID, asks Powerful National Public Service Announcement
How long, indeed? Some people with long COVID are now entering their third miserable year with the illness. They can’t be happy. Their doctors are at a loss. Treatment trials are underway, but most are too small or poorly run to light up the medical world. The...
The Hugely Predictive Factor for Long COVID…is also found in ME/CFS and Fibromyalgia: the IACFS/ME Conference II
This is the second in a series of blogs on the IACFS/ME 2022 International Conference on ME/CFS (and long COVID). The last one focused on David Systrom’s Keynote address. This one focused on an hour-long talk that kicked off the keynote session. Systrom’s...Lives Interrupted Latest Story
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