Dr. Stein's Blog
for ME/CFS, FM, ES, Long COVID and Chronic Pain
The Third International Virtual Congress on Fibromyalgia
On June 24 - 25 I attended the Third International Virtual Congress on Fibromyalgia. Many of the presenters were from Europe and were people ...
Sleep research is advancing by leaps and bounds. The most exciting information to me is understanding what is happening in the brain during the various sleep stages. Understanding the biology of sleep...
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...
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 Underway by ME/...
It is likely that during 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 psychot...
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 been ...
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 the Cell Danger Respon...
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 published s...
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 is...
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 Harvard ...
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 Ro...
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 fundraise...
