High Cocoa Chocolate reduces Chronic Fatigue
Well, it's a small sample and I doubt this will cure CFS but, it can't hurt. The studies' author says 2 patients went back to work after six months FWIW.
View ArticleMuch Ado About Something! - XMRV and CFS
In October 2009 The Whittemore Peterson Institute (WPI) published an account of findings in the journal "Science" by Lombardi et al that rapidly spread around the world. WPI claimed to have found that...
View ArticleThere was good medical news yesterday. So now what?
There was good medical news yesterday. Let's take a walk through ME/CFS, XMRV and MS, CCSVI... In 1995, Paolo Zamboni, an Italian surgeon, did not accept common medical answers when his wife was...
View ArticleChronic Tonic: Good Medical News - Now What?
CHRONIC TONIC posts on Thursdays at 9 p.m. EST, it is a place to share stories, advice, and information and to connect with others with chronic health conditions and those who care for them. Our...
View ArticleScience is Science. Politics is Politics. Or Not.
Maybe it is Political Science, and not the kind we learned in school. Earlier this week I wrote a diary giving two examples of promising medical findings that, it appears, government/academic/corporate...
View ArticleFahrenheit 451 for what ails you
By miraculous convergence, or by virtue of a coordinated campaign—take your pick—four research studies were published in the same medical journal this week all saying there was nothing, absolutely...
View ArticleUPDATE: Retroviruses, ME/CFS, Media, the dKos Community
A few days ago I wrote about the surprising simultaneous release of four research papers that seemed to say that the connection between myalgic encephalomyelitis/chronic fatigue syndrome (ME/CFS) and...
View ArticleMaureen Dowd is going to talk to her doctor. Try talking to yours.
On April 12, 2011, Maureen Dowd wrote about her brother who died a few years ago from what might have been a hospital-acquired infection. She reflects on how hard it is to confront another adult who...
View ArticleThe Tragedy of My Disease
I don't think I have ever written publicly about my disease. My closest friends and some relatives know I have had CFS/ME about 43 years, or all of my adult life. Like many, my CFS, a horrible term...
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KosAbility: High Stakes Big Drama Name Change: CFS/ME=SEID
Whether you have CFS, ME, CFS/ME, or CFID you now have increased validity as someone with an actual physical disease: SEID (Systemic Exertion Intolerance Disease). The Institute of Medicine (IOM)...
View ArticleSilence Won't Stop An Epidemic
MAYDAY! Take A Bite Out of Lyme and Thunderclap for ME/CFS/ME are some of the campaigns occurring in May for NEID awareness. Also new, a major lupus study seeks participants.
View ArticleKosAbility: CFS funding cut. Please HELP
Please sign the petition to restore funding for ME/CFS. I learned a long time ago that there are truly no words to describe what this feels like to have this disease. If you are in a hurry, I'll cut to...
View ArticleLet Me Tell You About Appearing in Federal Court
Today I opened my e-mail to find a Daily Kos action on Net Neutrality, titled, "This is How Lyn Jensen Appeared in Federal Court." Well, let me tell you about the time I actually appeared in federal...
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In Cleveland, child welfare goes to pot
I work as volunteer Executive Director for a small child advocacy organization, the National Coalition for Child Protection Reform. I often post to the NCCPR Child Welfare Blog. This is one of those...
View ArticleKOSABILITY: news blips & CFS/ME - slips & hips soon
Our next meeting features an overlooked vitamin essential for preventing osteoporosis and falls, and promoting healthy arteries. Wilderness voice’s story Slips and Hips discusses K-2 at our next...
View ArticleFIQR & SIQR; possibly CFS/ME-IQR. & some FM med journal articles
The Revised Fibromyalgia Impact Questionnaire (FIQR): validation and psychometric properties |Arthritis Research & Therapy200911:R120 |https://doi.org/10.1186/ar2783|© Bennett et al.; licensee...
View ArticleSome CFS/ME Medical News & Related.
MEDSCAPE IS FREE PROFESSIONAL NEWS & RESEARCH REPORTAGE. READERS ONLY NEED REGISTER THE FIRST TIME IN & CAN STAY SIGNED IN LONGTERM. (Most of the links below are from or via...
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KosAbility: Mom and Me
Mom’s birthday was February 25th. I miss her. She died of dementia in 2010. Some days she knew me, some days not. One day when I left, I said, “I love you, Mom.” She replied, “I love you, too.” I think...
View ArticleDisability: MillionsMissing Event May 12th
Some of you might have seen the awesome documentary “Unrest”, about Jennifer Brea’s struggles with chronic fatigue syndrome (now “myalgic encephalomyelitis” or ME). In the video, she and others arrange...
View ArticleRecent Insights on 3 UnderRecognized conditions: ME/CFS, FM, &...
From PubMedCentral (U.S. National Library of Medicine), free full-text —The Ontario Ministry of Health and Long-Term Care recently released the interim report1 of a task force charged with providing...
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