Dr. Stein's Blog
for ME/CFS, FM, ES, Long COVID and Chronic Pain
The IACFS/ME conference scheduled for June 2020 was cancelled due to COVID and a mini-version was presented online on Aug. 21, 2020. This blog covers some of the highlights.
Research...
It is likely that during the COVID-19, you have been using videoconferencing way more than you used to as a way of staying in touch with your friends and family. I am no different. I have taken my...
During my group psychotherapy sessions this week and last, we spent lots of time discussing how the COVID-19 pandemic is affecting people's lives. Ironically, many patients report that they have...
To provide context for this new information, please re-read my blogs on Naviaux’s work from May 2016 and October 2016. In the May 2016 blog, I summarize Naviaux’s 2014 paper on...
This is a review of a 2015 paper by Dr. Muhammad Yunus who was a key Fibromyalgia researcher since 1983 (the start of the modern era of FM). He is now retired. Throughout this time, he has...
New clinical guidelines released in August 2019 are written by a group of prominent clinicians including Dr. Alison Bested who is now an honorary American working in Fort Lauderdale. The document...
Komaroff Paper: State of Knowledge of ME/CFS in JAMA
ME/CFS State of the Knowledge
The Journal of the American Medical Association is a major medical journal. A recently published paper by...
There is now an OMF Canada! https://www.omfcanada.ngo/
The Open Medicine Foundation is a non-profit group in the US founded in 2012. Under the leadership of Linda Tannenbaum, the OMF has...
This poem by a severely ill PWC (person with ME/CFS) was transmitted to his mother Jane Dafoe through gestures. Whitney has not been able to talk for several years. Whitney is the son of researcher...
Most of the media stories on 5G technology have been about which company will provide the infrastructure and whether they will be trustworthy or not. Lost in this debate has been the potential...
National Institutes of Health
April 4 & 5 2019
Summary of select presentations
by Dr. Eleanor Stein
This 2-day NIH symposium on ME/CFS research is one of the most exciting I have listened...
Summary of the Polyvagal Theory by Stephen Porges and it's relevance to ME/CFS, FM and ES
What is the Autonomic Nervous System and how does it work?
The autonomic nervous system (ANS), which...
