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What causes all the symptoms of long COVID and ME/CFS? The brainstem could be the key

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

What to Know About ME/CFS, a Complex Condition That Involves Crushing Fatigue and So Much More

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Time

Have We Been Thinking About Long-Haul Coronavirus All Wrong?

A few years ago, Jaime Seltzer was helping coordinate research projects, grant applications and funding for a Stanford research group studying a condition called myalgic encephalomyelitis/chronic ...
New Scientist

Chronic fatigue syndrome seems to have a very strong genetic element

The largest study so far into the genetics of chronic fatigue syndrome, or myalgic encephalomyelitis, has implicated 259 genes – six times more than those identified just four months ago ...
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Study finds genetics could cause this chronic condition

A new study has revealed that those with myalgic encephalomyelitis or chronic fatigue syndrome (ME/CFS) have notable genetic differences from the general population. The DecodeME research team, led by ...
Psychology Today

In Search of a Coherent Understanding of ME/CFS and Long Covid

We expect modern medicine to be able to make sense of our health difficulties. What then, when it fails to do so? This is the reality for many millions of people globally living with myalgic ...
Business Insider

Seven Significant Organizations Propose Critical Code Change To CDC's ICD-10, Addressing Catastrophic Lack Of ME/CFS Case Tracking In The U.S.

LOS ANGELES, Aug. 23, 2021 /PRNewswire/ -- It's estimated that approximately 2.5 million Americans currently suffer from myalgic encephalomyelitis/chronic fatigue syndrome (ME/CFS), often a ...
VTDigger

Jenna Peeler: Long Covid linked to ME/CFS. I never recovered.

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Scientific American

Large Study of ME/CFS Patients Reveals Measurable Physical Changes

“chronic fatigue syndrome.” Now it’s called ME/CFS. Recently, a big study looked at people who got the illness after an infection, and it turned up a few clues about what might be causing their ...

Washington is ignoring a $362 billion chronic illness

The economic consequences of chronic fatigue syndrome are enormous. Yet federal research funding bears almost no relationship ...
The New York Times

What If You Never Get Better From Covid-19?

Some patients could be living with the aftereffects for years to come. Recent research into another persistent, mysterious disease might help us understand how to treat them. Kate Porter, 36, and her ...