by Jody Smith This year marks 31 years since Thomas Hennessy, Jr. decided that May 12th would be our ME/CFS International Awareness Day. May 12th had been the birthday of army nurse and Red Cross...
By Bronc Dr. Nina Muirhead is a dermatology surgeon and founding member of Doctors for ME in the UK. Since developing ME in 2016 she has done a lot to promote awareness of the disease writing and...
For over 25 years, Dr. Suzanne Vernon has been trying to crack the case of myalgic encephalomyelitis/ chronic fatigue syndrome (ME/CFS). Image courtesy of Dr. Suzanne Vernon. by Bronc I first fel...
By Bronc and Eric Pyrrhus For many decades now, people with myalgic encephalomyelitis/ chronic fatigue syndrome (ME/CFS) across the world have had to deal with medical establishments wedded to in...
Versión en español • Versão em português By Eric Pyrrhus César Medina climbed mountains, lifted weights, and was an avid cyclist. He had a good job. He had a partner. But everything change...
By Bronc In the world we live in people are suffering from all kinds of illnesses, which require a variety of different medications to treat them. Often, the road to finding a novel medication fo...
By Bronc People living with myalgic encephalomyelitis/ chronic fatigue syndrome (ME/CFS) are definitely not “just a little tired.” But they are indeed tired of some things — such as dealing...
In the last of a three-part series, people with neuroimmune diseases in Mexico speak up about the wide-ranging consequences of the disease on their life. If you haven’t already read the first p...
In the second of a three-part series, people describe the challenges of pursuing fundamental rights for patients with neuroimmune diseases in Mexico. If you haven’t already read the first part ...
In the first of a three-part series, people describe the challenges of living with neuroimmune diseases in Mexico. The science of these diseases is also discussed, and we try to understand why th...
by Jody Smith May 12th is a special day in the ME/CFS community. It was English army nurse Florence Nightingale’s birthday. In 1992 Thomas Hennessy, Jr. thought her birthday would be a fitting ...
By Bronc Dr. Amy Proal, of the PolyBio Research Foundation, is a microbiologist interested in the molecular mechanisms by which bacterial, fungal and viral pathogens dysregulate human gene expres...