Posted by Cort Johnson The funder of big, complex and expensive studies whose costs often run into the millions of dollars, the National Institutes of Health (NIH) presents a resource like no other. It’s never been easy to secure an NIH grant; for one thing, substantial data backing up one’s hypothesis is needed – which means researchers need to access
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Posted by Cort Johnson I can promise we will be providing cutting edge research and care, and educating providers like never before. Dr. Nancy Klimas Dr. Klimas recently left the University of Miami to head up a new Institute dedicated to researching chronic fatigue syndrome (ME/CFS) and Gulf War Illness at Nova Southeastern University. Dr. Klimas worked at the Univ.
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Posted by Cort Johnson Last week a notice from the University of Miami stating that after 27 years Dr. Klimas’s doors at the University would close sent something of a shock wave through the ME/CFS community. The idea that a significant CFS researcher, physician and advocate had perhaps lost her academic base was more than disturbing – but that announcement
ContinuePosted by Cort Johnson The Consult In Part I of the Dan Moricoli’s three part series on Dr. Klimas’s Heart Rate Based Activity Management Program on ME-CFSCommunity Center.com, we followed Brenda as she did a VO2 max exercise test on a bicycle at Dr. Klimas’s CFS Clinic. In the second video Dan video’s Brenda as she consults with Connie Sol,
ContinuePosted by Cort Johnson In collaboration with Dr. Klimas, Dan Moricoli of the ME-CFS Community and Knowledge Center has created a video series focusing on using VO2 max and heart rate measures to create a relapse free ‘exercise’ program to enhance ones health. Part I focuses on using the VO2 max test to determine at what heart rate patients enter
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Posted by Cort Johnson Gulf War Illness (GWI) and chronic fatigue syndrome (ME/CFS) have both struggled for recognition. Recent findings implicating similar findings in both disorders suggest each disorder could soon be helping the other gain more recognition and study. Throw in a recent rare advocacy win for ME/CFS supporting collaboration between the two fields and hope rises that not
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