Dr. Stein's Blog
for ME/CFS, FM, ES, Long COVID and Chronic Pain
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...
This is a 3-minute clip taken from a public service announcement produced by Taylor Leslie Cole. Dr. Stein played this at the beginning of the presentations for Awareness Day 2015.
Author: Eleanor (E...
Recorded May 19, 2015, as part of the Calgary International Awareness Day Educational Event for Myalgic Encephalomyelitis/Chronic Fatigue Syndrome, Fibromyalgia, & Multiple Chemical Sensitivity.
In t...
Recorded May 19, 2015, as part of the Calgary International Awareness Day Educational Event for Myalgic Encephalomyelitis/Chronic Fatigue Syndrome, Fibromyalgia, & Multiple Chemical Sensitivity.
In t...
“Distinct plasma immune signatures in ME/CFS are present early in the course of illness.”
Hornig et al Sci. Adv. 2015;1:e1400121 Feb 27, 2015
http://advances.sciencemag.org/content/1/1/e1400121
Thi...
In the past few months three important reports have been published that will impact the future (and possible even the name) of ME/CFS.
This newsletter provides a brief summary of each reports and the...
Fibromyalgia Neuropathic Pain
For background on how we have thought about Fibromyalgia pain for the past decade go to Session #7 in my manual “Let Your Light Shine Through”. There I summarize the res...
The picture above was taken by local photographer and ME/CFS supporter Justin Smith. It is of the Langevin Bridge in Calgary being lit Blue/Green and Purple the evening of May 12th. His pictures from ...
Recorded May 4, 2014, as part of the Calgary International Awareness Day Educational Event for Myalgic Encephalomyelitis/Chronic Fatigue Syndrome, Fibromyalgia, & Multiple Chemical Sensitivity.
The I...
