Findings underscore the risk for graded exercise in people with post-exertional malaise and point to careful activity pacing as a safer approach.

January 9, 2009 — Childhood trauma has been linked to a significantly increased risk for chronic fatigue syndrome (CFS) in adulthood, new research suggests. A study by investigators at Emory ...

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ME/CFS and the closely related long COVID could be caused by damage to the brainstem, according to a new scientific theory.

Myalgic encephalomyelitis/chronic fatigue syndrome (ME/CFS) and long Covid are complex and often disabling health conditions. They are multifactorial, with research demonstrating that common triggers ...

Dr. Ruby Tam was literally one of a kind in Minnesota when she started treating patients suffering from myalgic encephalomyelitis/chronic fatigue syndrome, or ME/CFS. It’s a debilitating disease ...

Source: Bioscience Image Library by Fayette Reynolds / Unsplash. This post is Part 2 of a series. In my previous post, I shared some thoughts on how we can use the brain’s plasticity to aid recovery ...

Lipkin is the John Snow Professor of epidemiology at Columbia University and the director of the Center for Infection and Immunity. He is also the director of the NIH Center for Solutions for ME/CFS ...

People with ME/CFS have significant differences in their blood compared with healthy individuals, a new study reveals, suggesting a path towards more reliable diagnosis of the long-term debilitating ...

Charles Shepherd, MD, was a “perfectly healthy” 30-something-year-old when he came down with chicken pox, which he caught while treating a patient with shingles. Even after the painful, itchy rash ...