So often, people with ME/CFS are told to “get over it” since “it’s all in your head.” While this is devastatingly inaccurate, there is an unintended glimmer of truth here – the brain plays an important role in ME/CFS. According to Research Director Suzanne Vernon,...
Research News
Progress in ME/CFS Subset Identification
When it comes to biomarker discovery and clinical trials, disease heterogeneity is the bane of clinical researchers existence. I am showing my age here, but think of it like static on the radio: too much noisy static makes it hard to hear the nice music sound and when...
A Consensus-Driven ME/CFS Clinician Coalition Takes Shape
On March 2-3, 2018, the Bateman Horne Center hosted an exciting summit of leading U.S. ME/CFS clinicians who came together to share their pearls of wisdom on diagnosis and treatment in order to improve ME/CFS clinical care and refine more precise research targets. The...
Dr. Derya Unutmaz Explains Collaborative Research Center “CRC” with BHC
Derya Unatmaz of Jackson Laboratories explains the partnership between Bateman Horne Center, Jackson Laboratory, and many other collaborators as part of our exciting new research. Myalgic encephalomyelitis/chronic fatigue syndrome (ME/CFS) is a debilitating illness...
NIH Awards Announced for ME/CFS Research Centers, BHC Key Member of Research Teams
The National Institute of Health has awarded funding for ME/CFS Collaborative Research Centers and Data Coordinating Center to collaborative research teams that include the Bateman Horne Center of Salt Lake City, Utah (BHC). This funding represents the largest single...
Welcome to the Microorganism Hotel
Gut Microbes and ME/CFS Theresa Dowell is a family nurse practitioner and physical therapist. She has suffered from CFS for 12 years. It was her experiences as a CFS patient that motivated her to start a medical clinic in Flagstaff, Arizona dedicated solely to...
Dream Teams Assemble to Advance Research
“Advancing Research” is central to Bateman Horne Centers’ mission of empowering patients and improving clinical care for ME/CFS and FM. The trick of course is figuring out the best way to advance research. This is a decision any organization targeting research into...
Differences So Clear
New Research Brings Clear Differences to Light in ME/CFS by Suzanne D. Vernon, PhD | BHC Research Liaison There is a great song in the musical RENT titled "Seasons of Love" in which they sing about the number of minutes in a year. As I am reviewing and...
Novel Gene Variants in ME/CFS and Fibromyalgia
Presented by Alan R. Light, PhD. In February 2017, Dr. Light began a new NIH-funded research grant, Novel Gene Variants in ME/CFS and Fibromyalgia. This is a continuation of earlier work which discovered a number of novel variants in both chromosomal and mitochondrial...
What’s the Buzz – January 2017
Buzz – January 2017: We scoured the Internet to bring you a list of news articles, blogs and research publications we think you’ll find interesting for this month's What’s the Buzz post. On January 27th, the NIH made two big announcements of federal funding...
Standardizing Measurement of ME/CFS Core Symptoms
Dr. Suzanne D. Vernon, BHC research liaison, explains how the IOM report defining the core symptoms of ME/CFS also define the BHC research roadmap. ________ At the October 2012 CFS Advisory Committee meeting Dr. Sandra Kweder, Deputy Director of the Office of New...
A Report of Research Progress in 2016
Because of the investment of many supporters - donors large and small - the Bateman Horne Center (BHC) has been able to partner with cutting-edge researchers across the globe. BHC works directly with researchers to enroll well-categorized patients into their research,...