Check out Geoff’s narration The Long COVID Moonshot proposal recently introduced by Senator Bernie Sanders is something that everyone with a post-infectious disease – and that includes people with long COVID, chronic fatigue syndrome (ME/CFS), post-treatment Lyme disease, postural orthostatic tachycardia syndrome (POTS), and even many people with fibromyalgia should […]

Thanks to Geoff for providing a narration of this blog   The “complement” system doesn’t at first glance sound like much. Its name reflects the fact that, in part, it “complements” the immune system; i.e. it triggers immune cells to attack pathogens and clean up damaged cells. It also, though, […]

Listen to Geoff’s narration of this blog   This is a wrenching, disturbing blog. It’s putatively about the war on cancer, but it’s really about medicine and all the weirdnesses that goes into fighting a disease. You might think that in cancer – that deadliest of foes – egos would […]

Want to listen to the blog? Thanks to Geoff for providing a narration of it. 🙂   The multiple sclerosis drug Copaxone (glatiramer acetate) is back in the chronic fatigue syndrome (ME/CFS) news. Health Rising first reported that Copaxone helped some ME/CFS patients back in 2015, and Jarred Younger included […]

Something new! Thanks so much to Geoff for doing a voice narration of the blog :). If you have any problems please let us know.  This is the first of two blogs on atypical thyroid issues in diseases like chronic fatigue syndrome (ME/CFS), fibromyalgia (FM), and long COVID. If you’re […]

Health Rising’s Sleep Series  Pt. I – Dr. Bruck Interview – Bronc kicked the series off with an interview of Dr. Bruck – a retired sleep researcher whose son has ME/CFS. Pt. II – Ruhoy and Kaufman on Sleep – an overview of a fascinating talk by two long-term ME/CFS/FM and […]