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The Scientist, The Seahorse And The Nanoneedle – Catching Up With Ron Davis...

      By Cort Johnson in Health Rising.   The “most famous scientist in the world” visited Ron Davis and his End ME/CFS group a couple of weeks ago and gave the project a thumbs up. James Watson and...

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Facts: Chronic Fatigue Syndrome Is.. A Major Disorder

From Health Rising:   “I split my clinical time between the two illnesses, and I can tell you if I had to choose between the two illnesses I would rather have H.I.V.” Dr. Nancy Klimas, 2009 The name...

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The Time Is N.O.W. – National Women’s Advocacy Organization Joins The Fight...

By Cort Johnson in Health Rising.   This one action demonstrates why it’s so important to have a full-time professional advocate for chronic fatigue syndrome (ME/CFS). The National Organization for...

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Chronic Fatigue Syndrome Is…….

  From Health Rising.   A Major Disorder “I split my clinical time between the two illnesses, and I can tell you if I had to choose between the two illnesses I would rather have H.I.V.” Dr. Nancy...

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Changing Hearts And Minds: A Review Of Unrest

  By Cort Johnson in Health Rising.   Unrest is about to spring into action. Scheduled to go into widespread theatrical release in dozens of theaters over the next couple of months: on Sept 22nd in the...

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Three NIH Funded ME/CFS Research Centers….And (What Else ?) A Controversy

  By Cort Johnson in Health Rising.   Almost two years after Dr. Collins announced that the NIH would reinvigorate ME/CFS, the NIH has finally provided funding for three research centers and one data...

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How Physical Therapists Are Getting It About Chronic Fatigue Syndrome (ME/CFS)

    By Cort Johnson in health Rising.   Immunologists aren’t interested. Neurologists, in general, are to be avoided. Endocrinologists can’t be bothered. Except for primary care physicians specializing...

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Cognition And Chronic Fatigue Syndrome (ME/CFS): Key Findings And Seminal Papers

    By Cort Johnson in Health Rising.   This paper attempts to identify seminal papers regarding cognition or the ability to think well in chronic fatigue syndrome (ME/CFS). It covers what researcher...

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What If ME/CFS Is An Intelligent Process Gone Awry ?

    By Veronique Mead M.D. in Health Rising.   Veronique had a very gradual onset of ME/CFS beginning in the 1990s when she was a family physician. Her symptoms worsened slowly over 10 years. At her...

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Through The Looking Glass: Cerebral Spinal Fluid Leaks & Ehlers Danlos...

  by Caroline Christian in Health Rising.   Caroline returns with a not uncommon story of a complicated chronic fatigue syndrome (ME/CFS) diagnosis. From fibromyalgia to Ehlers-Danlos syndromes to...

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Urgency: Ron Davis And His (Non-NIH Funded) ME/CFS Collaborative Research Center

  By Cort Johnson in Health Rising.   This is one of a series of blogs that will look at what’s coming up in 2018 from ME/CFS research foundations. Urgency Those ten NIH research center proposals...

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Bearing Witness For ME/CFS – Valerie Free Lights Up A Hidden World: Pt. I –...

    By Cort Johnson in Health Rising.   ME/CFS needs witnesses – people who can stand firm in the face of denial and rejection and tell their story to the world. Each time we responsibly speak the...

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Ron Davis Talks On ME/CFS………And Texas Listens

  By Cort Johnson in Health Rising.   Ron Davis was invited to the University of Texas to talk to the biological and bioengineering departments over two days. His long talk was putatively on developing...

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The Stories We Tell: Unrest Inspired ME/CFS Effort Triumphs In The...

  By Cort Johnson in Health Rising.   When things start moving, help shows up in the most unlikely places.  Take a recent blog from a University of Michigan sports blogger – Ace. Ace has been sick...

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An ME/CFS And FM Pioneer Says Good-bye: The Charles Lapp Interview

  By Cort Johnson in Health Rising.   Dr. Lapp’s path to medicine and then into chronic fatigue syndrome (ME/CFS) and fibromyalgia (FM) was an unusual one. Lapp graduated from the Rensselaer...

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Long-Term Saline Use Improves Cardiovascular Functioning In ME/CFS: A...

    By Cort Johnson in Health Rising.   The exercise physiologists at the Workwell Foundation are pretty darn good at providing thought provoking case reports. A couple of years ago, a Workwell case...

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Craniocervical Instability, Neurosurgery And M.E.: Just The Facts, Please –...

  By Jeff Wood in Health Rising.   Jeff Wood’s remarkable recovery from severe ME/CFS following spinal surgery to correct craniocervical instability (CCI) and other problems shocked the ME/CFS...

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Is Ron Davis’s ME/CFS Collaborative Research Center At Stanford Poised For A...

    By Cort Johnson in Health Rising.   Ron Davis’s Stanford ME/CFS Collaborative Research Center is itching to get back to full-time lab work. It’s not that Davis and his group haven’t been working....

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Celebrating Whitney Dafoe And His “Awakening” On His 37th Birthday

By Cort Johnson in Health Rising.   It’s Whitney Dafoe’s 37th birthday. He’s had chronic fatigue syndrome (ME/CFS) since 2004 and has been severely ill since about 2012. Fed by feeding tubes, eyes and...

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A Fatigue Nucleus In Multiple Sclerosis… And ME/CFS And Fibromyalgia ?

By Cort Johnson in Health Rising. Fatigue has been a mystery to the research world. Take multiple sclerosis (MS) – one of the most fatiguing diseases known. Fatigue is often one of the first symptoms...

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