The NIH laid a huge egg when someone invited Edward Shorter, a Toronto psychiatrist who makes Simon Wessely look like an angel, to speak on ME/CFS. Shorter not only denies the disease exists but calls ME/CFS patients “groaning victims” and belittles their...
The NIH should be releasing it’s increased funding for chronic fatigue syndrome (ME/CFS) soon. As we wait for that let’s take a look at several things that have happened in the last month and assess where we are, and what we have learned. The first thing...
“We are going to ramp this up.” Francis Collins Should you attend the MillionsMissing protest for more funding? Consider this. It’s been almost a year since NIH Director Francis Collin’s pledge to greatly expand chronic fatigue syndrome...
VIcky Whittemore and Dr. Koroshetz head the Trans NIH Working group for ME/CFS which is leading the charge to reinvigorate chronic fatigue syndrome (ME/CFS) research at the NIH. As the largest research funder in the world NIH funded research plays a major in the...
The NIH held a telebriefing with about 100 ME/CFS advocates, researchers and supporters Tuesday morning. This overview is taken from my notes of the meeting. The Big Three – Dr. Francis Collins, Dr. Koroshetz and Dr. Nath – were all there – and that...
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