Heath Rising recently featured two large “mega” ME/CFS projects attempting to get at the heart of ME/CFS, but they’re not the end of the very ambitious attempts underway to understand this disease. Ian Lipkin and Mady Hornig at the Center For...
In a presentation to an NIH conference on translating research results into clinical practices, the scientific director of the Simmaron Research Foundation, Dr. Isabel Barao, will present a paper suggesting something very strange may be going on in ME/CFS...
So many different pathogens can trigger ME/CFS that immune system problems (not the bugs themselves) are probably the key factor in this disorder. That fact and increasing evidence of high rates of heritability convinced the Simmaron Research Foundation to launch an...
As things stand right now, one could say that it takes 20 years to get 1 year’s worth of ME/CFS research done. Why? Because the level of funding allocated for ME/CFS research is 20 times lower than that of comparable diseases. See “The Underfinanced ME/CFS Research,...
The Times They Are a Changing. In response to Dr. Unger’s request, the Simmaron Research Foundation is sponsoring a large workshop at the IACFS/ME Conference to recommend immune tests that will guide the diagnosis and treatment of chronic fatigue syndrome....
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