Written by Dr. Anthony Komaroff On June 7, 2021, Drs. Lipkin and Komaroff published an article in Trends in Molecular Medicine on the state of ME/CFS research in the wake of COVID-19. An illness like ME/CFS has been described in the medical literature for several hundred years. Yet, when interest in the illness resurfaced inContinue reading “ME/CFS Research: State of the Art, State of the Science”
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CfS for ME/CFS Drs. Komaroff and Bateman participate in MEAction Presser
On March 25, #MEAction hosted a telepresser featuring a panel of experts uniquely positioned to speak to how long COVID is being informed by the research on myalgic encephalomyelitis / chronic fatigue syndrome (ME/CFS). Long haulers are overwhelmingly reporting symptoms that resemble ME/CFS at six months, and researchers are expecting the number of people withContinue reading “CfS for ME/CFS Drs. Komaroff and Bateman participate in MEAction Presser”
Will There Be a Post-COVID-19 Form of ME/CFS?
By Dr. Anthony Komaroff Will some people who get COVID-19 subsequently develop ME/CFS? After all, many people with ME/CFS say that their illness began with some kind of infection: “a virus,” “a flu,” “a bad cold.” When it started, their illness didn’t feel that different from similar illnesses in the past, so no tests wereContinue reading “Will There Be a Post-COVID-19 Form of ME/CFS?”
A microbe hunter turns to ME/CFS: Ian Lipkin presents at the CDC
The following is a transcript of Dr. Lipkin’s talk at the CDC in September. You can watch the full lecture here: Transcript 21:19 This is actually how I got into this field, I was invited by Brian Mahy, who many of you will remember, and Jim Dobbins who some of you may remember, because ofContinue reading “A microbe hunter turns to ME/CFS: Ian Lipkin presents at the CDC”
You asked, we answered!
In December 2019, we asked our audience to send us questions they would want a ME/CFS expert to answer. Here are some of the questions we received from the community:
