Dr. Stein's Blog
for ME/CFS, FM, ES, Long COVID and Chronic Pain
Many of my email correspondents asked me questions such as what vitamins are good for myalgic encephalomyelitis (ME) and what supplements are good for chronic fatigue syndrome (CFS). In this blog...
In August 2019, the Canadian Institutes of Health Research (CIHR) funded the first team grant ever for Myalgic Encephalomyelitis.
The press release states “Government of Canada invests...
When False Ideas Cost Lives - Scurvy and ME/CFS
In any young field and in the absence of gold standard tests and treatments theories about what causes and what cures diseases abound. This has been...
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...
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...
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...
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...
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...
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...
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...
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...
October 2016 Newsletter
In my last newsletter, I talked about a 2014 paper by Robert Naviaux’s discovery of something he has labelled the Cell Danger Response. I discussed how it could change...
