Dr. Stein's Blog
for ME/CFS, FM, ES, Long COVID and Chronic Pain
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 ...
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...
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...
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 health ...
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 to. There ...
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 functio...
First-ever National Conference on ME/CFS
I have just returned from Montreal where I attended the first-ever National Conference on ME/CFS. I always leave ME/CFS meetings feeling less alone. I met phy...
Mental and Physical Exertion Cause Brain Fog
Cook et al. Neural consequences of post-exertional malaise in ME/CFS. Brain, Behavior and Immunity 62 (2017) 87-99.
This study was a collaboration betwee...
Mahshid Dehghan et al. Associations of fats and carbohydrate intake with cardiovascular disease and mortality in 18 countries from five continents (PURE): a prospective cohort study. The Lancet Augus...
Alberta by Dale Beesley
Dale Beesley Statutory Director of the AISH program spoke to us from Edmonton via the internet.
Dale Beesley started his career in the Government of Alberta (GOA) in 1997 wit...
Kris spoke to us from his office in Ottawa via the internet.
Kris Johnson has been the Director-General of the Canada Pension Plan Disability Directorate since July 2015. Prior ...
