New research suggests that the brains of people with Long COVID and Myalgic Encephalomyelitis/Chronic Fatigue Syndrome (ME/CFS) struggle to communicate effectively during mentally tiring tasks. While ...

Lipkin is the John Snow Professor of epidemiology at Columbia University and the director of the Center for Infection and Immunity. He is also the director of the NIH Center for Solutions for ME/CFS ...

NHS Highland is to launch a virtual support service for people with chronic fatigue syndrome. Also known as ME/CFS, an ...

Add Yahoo as a preferred source to see more of our stories on Google. Turns out, Chronic Fatigue Syndrome (CFS) and long COVID have a few things in common. For one, they're notoriously tricky to ...

Laura holds a Master's in Experimental Neuroscience and a Bachelor's in Biology from Imperial College London. Her areas of expertise include health, medicine, psychology, and neuroscience. Laura holds ...

Add Yahoo as a preferred source to see more of our stories on Google. Millions of people who recover from infections like COVID-19, influenza and glandular fever are affected by long-lasting symptoms.

Source: Bioscience Image Library by Fayette Reynolds / Unsplash. This post is Part 2 of a series. In my previous post, I shared some thoughts on how we can use the brain’s plasticity to aid recovery ...

The multisystem presentation of long-haul coronavirus disease 2019 (COVID-19) displays striking similarity with myalgic encephalomyelitis/chronic fatigue syndrome (ME/CFS). Moreover, the particular ...

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 ...

In modern-day culture, it’s common to complain about being tired. But for some people, being extremely tired is just one symptom of a disease that’s increased in awareness since the COVID-19 pandemic ...

ME/CFS and the closely related long COVID could be caused by damage to the brainstem, according to a new scientific theory. If their new model turns out to be right, the scientists behind it suggest ...

A small study found that a blood test could identify whether someone had Chronic Fatigue Syndrome (CFS) with 92% accuracy. Because CFS and long COVID have some biological overlap, this research could ...