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Lunch & Learn Recap: Restorative Yoga and Meditation for Spoonies
In the recent Lunch & Learn Recap focused on Restorative Yoga and Meditation for Spoonies, held on March 21, 2024, the Bateman Horne Center offered a wealth of information and resources for those seeking to improve their well-being through yoga...
Support Group Recap: Navigating the Complex Healthcare Industry
Support Group Recap: Navigating the Complex Healthcare Industry: Using Awareness and Self-advocacy Skills to Get What We Need In a compelling Support Group Recap titled "Navigating the Complex Healthcare Industry: Using Awareness and Self-advocacy...
ME/CFS Inpatient Study Findings – BHC’s Statement
Since the recent release of the NIH intramural publication detailing findings from the ME/CFS Inpatient Study, there has been a whirlwind of impassioned commentary. While we harbor mixed sentiments about the paper, we've committed professionally to...
How to Be a Demanding Diplomat as a Severe ME/CFS Caregiver
Galen Warden is the mother of an adult son with severe ME/CFS. Bateman Horne Center partnered with her to provide essential guidance on caring and advocating for individuals with ME/CFS. This blog post includes: Galen's video presentation Galen's...
Jennifer Bell, APRN, FNB-BC, Medical Practitioner
"Over the last 28 years, I have mostly worked in rural primary care settings in Maine and Hawaii. I never would have thought that my rural health care experience would be a perfect training ground for managing post-infectious fatigue syndromes....
Long COVID Treatment Trial
This past summer, we completed an open-label, proof of concept trial using a combination of valacyclovir, the generic form of Valtrex, and celecoxib, the generic form of Celebrex to see if it improved symptoms in women sick with Long COVID. The...
A Year of Successful Medical Education
Today we are marking the successful first year of the Medical Education Resource Center (MERC) at BHC, supported by Open Medicine Foundation with a message from our Education Director, Tahlia Ruschioni. I am often asked when we will know that our...
Leaky Gut, Suppressed Immune Response, & PEM
I met Armin Alaedini in 2008 at a meeting in San Francisco that was about solutions for Lyme and other tick-borne diseases through cutting edge science. I was fascinated by his presentation on immunological findings in post-treatment Lyme disease...
You & M.E.
You & M.E. Grief that remains a forever process. Revolving door, repetitious. The body I once took for granted. The endless energy I once had. Nothing good comes from resentment. Evaluating the symptoms present. They come and go, multisystem...
Caregiver Guidance
Appendix 2: When someone you care about experiences a crash, it can be scary and leave you feeling helpless. This resource aims to equip you with knowledge and insights from caregiver-to-caregiver on ways to support and alleviate the suffering of the person experiencing the crash (referenced below as the patient).