Dr. Stein's Blog for ME/CFS, FM, ES, Long COVID, and Chronic Pain
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...
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...
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...
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...
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...
Recorded May 19, 2015, as part of the Calgary International Awareness Day Educational Event for Myalgic Encephalomyelitis/Chronic Fatigue Syndrome, Fibromyalgia, & Multiple Chemical...
“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
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...
