New Immune Cell Findings Unite Chronic Fatigue Syndrome and U.K. ME/CFS Researchers
In decades of immune research, nobody has ever called attention to the specialized T-cells called MAIT cells in ME/CFS. Recently, though, two research efforts, working independently, have highlighted these unique cells – which form a bridge between the gut and...
The NIH ME/CFS Conference II: Lipkin’s Possibilities, Prusty’s Big Idea, Oh’s Search and Ron Davis on ALWAYS Moving Forward
Day two of the Conference – not all of which is covered here, started off with a physicians’ panel, then NIH Director Francis Collins showed up (covered later) just before the Intramural study presented some results, then it was onto Ian Lipkin, Dr. Oh,...
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...
The Atypical Thyroid Issues in Chronic Fatigue Syndrome (ME/CFS), Plus a New Thyroid Subset?
Problems with the thyroid – the “gas pedal of the body”, as Dr. Teitelbaum calls it – seem to make sense given the fatigue, exercise and other problems found in ME/CFS and FM. Assessing and treating the thyroid, though, is one area where the...
Catching ME/CFS in the Act: The Collaborative on Fatigue Following Infection
The post-infectious fatigue studies – those which follow healthy people as they come down with an infection and then develop ME/CFS – present the possibility of catching the disease in its tracks as it begins to wreak it’s havoc. Expensive and...Lives Interrupted Latest Story
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