THE GIST Main Takeaway – Increased excitability of a part of the brain that regulates movement, pain, and emotions, and may produce fatigue – the motor cortex – links together fibromyalgia, chronic fatigue syndrome (ME/CFS), and long COVID. In each...
Medication and Treatment Decisions – Navigating Online (mis)Information & Evaluating the Evidence What to do when robust evidence; i.e. evidence-based medicine – medicine that has been thoroughly assessed by scientific studies – just isn’t...
The bottom line is always treatments. Long COVID has brought a ton of interest to post-infectious illnesses. Researchers are asking whether they are actually autoimmune diseases, how big of a role coagulation or gut microbiome problems play, if viral reactivation is...
Clinical Trials Ending This Year or Late Last Year The coronavirus pandemic stopped everything for quite a while but the clinical trials which survived the pandemic probably started up again quite some time ago. All we have to go by, though, are the stated completion...
(My apologies for those who got two email blasts. I’m not sure how that happened.) In this hour plus Q&A with Sheffield ME and Fibromyalgia Group I got to blab about hot topics in fibromyalgia research, hope for future treatments, how chronic fatigue...
The Mission Solve M.E.’s Chief Scientific Officer, Sadie Whittaker, was on a mission. She wanted to get chronic fatigue syndrome (ME/CFS) embedded in one of the top medical schools in the country. UCLA, located in the tony Westwood neighborhood of Los Angeles,...
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