(Brian Vastag comes full circle. A former employee of the NIH, Vastag’s Washington Post letter to NIH Director Francis Collins “I’m disabled. Can NIH spare a few dimes?”, in conjunction with the recently published IOM and NIH Pathways to Prevention...
Entirely devoted to health news, STAT is much more than a medical update site like, say, Medical News Today. Not content to simply report the latest breakthroughs, STAT thrives on investigative reporting that gets behind the scenes and holds institutions accountable....
The antidote to despair is action…Joan Baez If you’ve been around for a while you’re probably well acquainted with the Solve ME/CFS Initiative’s “Advocacy Week”. You may even be jaded about it – yet another Advocacy Week...
From the beginning, the RECOVER Initiative has focused on building out the massive infrastructure needed to follow and study approximately 18,000 participants. Hundreds of millions of dollars have been spent creating the main thrust of the Initiative. About a year...
This is a response to Alice’s thoughtful blog, “No, long COVID is not helping ME/CFS – and we should stop pretending that it is…” No, Long Covid is Not Helping People with ME… Alice’s blog was carefully written. She wrote,...
Can we please stop pretending that it is? Note: In the following text I refer to “ME” to mean “ME not caused by Covid”. This is not technically correct, but done for simplicity. Prior to covid, there was little hope for people with ME. Less than 5% recover & it is...