Key Takeaways When faced with conflicting information about medications, supplements, and other medical interventions, it can be hard to tell which options truly offer more benefit than harm. In this post, Dr. Eleanor Stein, a physician and educator specializing in myalgic encephalomyelitis/chro...

How Many Canadians Have Long COVID? Now that COVID-19 is less often in the news, you might be wondering how many people are still getting infected, how ill they become and whether they are getting long COVID. On October 17th a report was published by Statistics Canada in collaboration with the P...

With very few exceptions - YES.   August 22, 2021: Updated COVID information: The effectiveness of COVID-19 vaccines on the delta variant.   How are people with ME/CFS, FM and ES responding to the COVID vaccines? Since publishing my blog on the COVID vaccine in April 2021, I continue to rece...

We are entering flu season. I anticipate getting many questions as to my recommendations regarding whether people with ME/CFS should get the flu vaccine or not. Health Canada recommends that everyone over 6 months of age including pregnant women receive an annual flu vaccine at the start of the s...