Dr. Stein's Blog
for ME/CFS, FM, ES, Long COVID and Chronic Pain
Hugh spoke to us from his office in Toronto via the internet. At the top of this screen is the video recording of Hugh's talk and below it is the audio-only version of his talk. The audio-only version...
Drs. Oystein Fluge and Olav Mella from Norway are the authors of research over the past few years showing that some individuals with ME/CFS recover (at least temporarily) with rituximab, a drug that d...
It has been known for almost two decades that there is a connection between ME/CFS and FM and joint hypermobility. Dr. Peter Rowe was one of the first to publish on this topic. For more on his work an...
October 2016 Newsletter
In my last newsletter, I talked about a 2014 paper by Robert Naviauxā€™s discovery of something he has labelled the Cell Danger Response. I discussed how it could change how we ...
How to Use Neuroplasticity to Reverse Persistent Pain
This presentation is titled Neuroplastic Transformation: Using Neuroplasticity to Cure Persistent Pain and was presented by Dr. Michael Moskowitz...
This is a video recording of the 20 minute Q&A session done after the presentations by Dr. Moskowitz and Dr. DeLisle. Dr. Moskowitz fielded questions from both the in-house audience as well as the onl...
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This presentation by Dr. Michelle M. DeLisle was broadcast on May 11 during the same event with Dr. Moskowitz and immediately following the talk by Dr. Moskowitz. In this talk, Dr. DeLisle reinforc...
I was spurred by the recent news release from the Open Medicine Foundation to read more about Robert Naviaux from UCSD, the lead investigator of the new metabalomics study. Dr. Naviaux published a pap...
Clinical Practice Guidelines (CPG) are documents which take into account all of the published, peer reviewed medical literature and make recommendations based on that evidence.
Evidence based guid...
Many of you will have heard of the PACE study, a large multicentre study of Cognitive Behavior Therapy (CBT) and Graded Exercise Therapy (GET) for ME/CFS conducted in the UK. The first paper from this...
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 ...
I was fortunate to have the chance to work with Dr. Karin Olson, a professor of Nursing at U of Alberta and long time CFS researcher and her graduate student Oksana Zimka testing her hypothesis of the...
