ME/CFS Funding Worsens As NIH Maintains Status Quo
A FOIA and Jennie Spotila’s analyses indicate the NIH funding for ME/CFS is heading in the wrong direction. Into the Dark Side Researchers abandoning the NIH? Significant drops in funding? Who could have imagined it would have gone this way four years ago when...
Fibromyalgia and Chronic Fatigue Syndrome: The Gap Widens
The similarities are striking: the symptoms, the shoddy research funding, the poor treatment from doctors, the gender imbalance and the stigma both still face. Both diseases still really exist on the fringes of medicine and medical research. Yet one disease is moving...
HEAL II: The NIH’s Big Opioid and Pain Initiative Gets More Teeth
The HEAL Initiative (Helping End Addiction Long Term) is one of the rare NIH initiatives that presents real possibilities for a long neglected population. It took an act of Congress – which gave the NIH $500 million and specifically directed them to use it attack...
Researcher Disinterest Still Hampering ME/CFS Field Plus Avoiding Burnout, The “Real” NIH, Staying Homeless, Moving Forward
A Freedom of Information Act (FOIA) reveals that during the three grant review panels from July 2017 to April 2018, chronic fatigue syndrome (ME/CFS) researchers applied for a total of 12 grants. It was the lowest number of grant applications to the panel dating back...Lives Interrupted Latest Story
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