They were the “original gangster” (OG) in chronic fatigue syndrome (ME/CFS). At one point in time, enteroviruses were pretty much “it” in ME/CFS. Indeed, the ME/CFS outbreaks from the 1930s to 1960s resembled nothing so much as atypical...
Dr. Bateman’s private practice was swamped. Her waiting list was a mile long – and she’d had it! With visions of all the patients she couldn’t help dancing in her head, Dr. Lucinda Bateman threw her hat over the wall, closed her practice, and...
The “What’s Up Doc?” series is a series dedicated to exploring what’s catching the eyes and ears of ME/CFS/FM and allied disorders doctors. What are they exploring? What new treatments approaches or research avenues are they checking out? It...
We’re moving into a prime advocacy period. This is the second of a series of blogs on advocacy that are going to appear over the next month. The first focused on the big advocacy event of the year – the Solve ME/CFS Initiative’s Lobby Day. If...
A riff on Dr. Peter Rowe’s presentation at the 2020 Dysautonomia International Conference (note that I expand on many of Rowe’s points; i.e. not all the words are his.) Lauren Stiles, the founder of Dysautonomia International, has long believed that the...
We recommend that all ME/CFS and Fibromyalgia patients have a NASA 10-minute Lean Test to assess for orthostatic intolerance. Batetman Horne Center The saga of the effort to introduce and validate the NASA Lean Test (NLT) for ME/CFS just seems so right in so many...
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