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"The funding, from the Canadian Institutes of Health Research, will allow Cheung to work with about 300 researchers, clinicians and people with long COVID to develop diagnostics, treatments and rehabilitation"...

Please share the treatments pwME are receiving besides sleep meds.

Government of Canada invests new funding for post COVID-19 condition, in line with recommendations from the Chief Science Advisor’s report...

@rvallee The author of the tweet: https://cumming.ucalgary.ca/labs/calgary-autonomic-investigation/pots-long-covid He has never mentioned M.E in any of his tweets.

New test is the latest in a series of blood tests for mental health disorders INDIANAPOLIS—Researchers from Indiana University School of Medicine have successfully developed a blood test for anxiety. The test examines biomarkers that can help them objectively determine someone’s risk for...

We (M.E and MS) might be dealing with different subtypes.

Nitric Oxide (NO), though small and labile, is a potent signaling molecule that plays important roles in both normal physiological function, as well as disease initiation and progression. Both lack and excess NO have been revealed as a contributing factor in pathophysiology in nearly all organs...

Primary Progressive MS confirmed to be distinct from other MS subtypes: https://acnr.co.uk/primary-progressive-ms-confirmed-to-be-distinct-from-other-ms-subtypes/

Abstract Multiple sclerosis is clinically characterized by relapses and remissions (relapsing-remitting multiple sclerosis) that over time may evolve to a progressive course (secondary progressive multiple sclerosis) or as having a progressive course from disease onset (primary progressive...

Transcutaneous delivery of sodium bicarbonate increases intramuscular pH, 2023 https://www.frontiersin.org/articles/10.3389/fphys.2023.1142567/full

Abstract A comprehensive evaluation of the risks and 1-year burdens of gastrointestinal disorders in the post-acute phase of COVID-19 is needed but is not yet available. Here we use the US Department of Veterans Affairs national health care databases to build a cohort of 154,068 people with...

A systematic review of RCTs found that commercially available mouthwash with CPC can reduce the viral load and might prevent the spread of COVID-19. Abstract Introduction COVID-19 is a transmissible respiratory and multisystem disease caused by severe acute respiratory syndrome coronavirus 2...

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I was advised by an internal medicine doctor in 1993 to take zinc. I felt better within a few weeks and started going for short walks. Possibly a coincidence n=1 experience

I had a brainstem evoked response audiometry(BERA) test in 1993 because I had vertigo. It was normal.

Professional tennis players in the past got EBV and recovered, some haven't returned to previous health and had to retire. https://www.theguardian.com/sport/2015/dec/24/robin-soderling-retires-tennis-glandular-fever

I wonder if the same therapeutic approaches would benefit us too? Abstract Stroke is a pathophysiological condition which results in alterations in cerebral blood flow (CBF). The mechanism by which the brain maintains adequate CBF in presence of fluctuating cerebral perfusion pressure (CPP) is...