It's estimated ME/CFS affects more than 240,000 Australians Symptoms include brain fog, memory loss, muscle and joint pain and post-exertional malaise Low-dose Naltrexone has been identified as a ...

A faulty ion channel function is a consistent biological feature of Myalgic Encephalomyelitis/Chronic Fatigue Syndrome (ME/CFS), providing long-awaited validation for hundreds of thousands of ...

Artist and musician Becca Thomas knew something was wrong when they went from working two jobs, making art, and exercising consistently to feeling winded from a single flight of stairs. It all started ...

“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 ...

Women with ME/CFS tend to have more symptoms and co-occurring conditions than men, according to initial results from the world's largest study of the disease. It has long been known that women are ...

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Myalgic encephalomyelitis/chronic fatigue syndrome (ME/CFS) is a debilitating multisystem disorder from which adults rarely recover. Researchers have struggled to find changes in the body that ...

The terms myalgic encephalomyelitis (ME; or encephalopathy), chronic fatigue syndrome (CFS), CFS/ME and ME/CFS have all been used for this condition and are not clearly defined. There is little ...

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