BHC Blog
Getting Race-Ready!
"I’ve been a tortoise alongside my patients for 20 years, modeling patience and persistence. Now, while those who are ill must of necessity maintain turtle pace, it is time for researchers and clinicians to pick up the pace as hares, only this time...
Drawing Out Pain
by Karey Shane It's difficult to describe the depth of loneliness that creeps into the soul of those with chronic pain and fatigue. Hundreds of waking hours in isolation eventually turn into tens of thousands of hours. Facebook photos on a person's...
Tortoise & Hare Reflections
An open letter from Lucinda Bateman MD As many do, I spent some time over the holiday break reflecting on the past year and making new goals for 2016. Although 2015 started out on an emotional high with the release of the IOM report and new...
What’s the Buzz – January
Each month we scour the Internet and bring you a list of news articles, blogs and research publications we think you’ll find interesting for our What's the Buzz post. Occasionally, we’ll highlight and summarize a few of them for you, like these:...
Guest Blog – Bringing ME/CFS/SEID into Mainstream Medicine
Establishing a Distinct ICD-10 Code by Jon D. Kaiser, MD - CFS researcher, clinician, and patient Dr. Jon Kaiser is a recovered CFS/ME patient, clinician, and researcher who has been caring for people with CFS/ME, AIDS, and cancer for the past...
Eight Years Later, Living with ME/CFS
Presented by Thomas G. Harrison, LCSW, MFT Thomas Harrison has worked as a mental health professional with patients with chronic disease for 39 years and has lived with ME/CFS since 1989. On January 6th, 2016, he discussed the progress made in...
Improving Clinical Care
The Bateman Horne Center, a center of excellence, is leading the way in the medical advancement and treatment of Myalgic Encephalomyelitis/Chronic Fatigue Syndrome (ME/CFS) and Fibromyalgia (FM) through integrated medical research and clinical...
A Road Map for Advancing Research
Biomarkers can take the “process of elimination” out of diagnosing ME/CFS and Fibromyalgia. Biomarkers (short for biological markers) can be objectively measured and tell you something about the individual – whether there is disease present, what...
A Link Between the Gut Microbiome and Post-Exertional Malaise
For every 1 human cell in our body there are 10 microbes. We are now beginning to appreciate the roles of these diverse microbial communities in health and disease. The various parts of our bodies have distinct microbial populations called...
Allow Hope
A poem by Ellen Phillips i gather dust like the house crawl upstairs & kneel before the miracle of a bath marvel at the view from the rooftops pray for kindness in the aftermath each breath a miracle each step a miracle before closing my...
Lucinda Bateman, MD, is a renowned clinician, researcher, and educator. Her Johns Hopkins University Medical School training instilled an approach to care that she has employed throughout her career - the patient comes first and the unknown or unexplained does not equate to a lack of proper and compassionate care. Since starting her own practice in 2000, she has served on six boards or committees, been the principal investigator for 45 studies, authored/coauthored 40 journal articles, served as adjunct instructor and adjunct assistant professor in the University of Utah Departments of Preventative Medicine, Internal Medicine, and Anesthesiology, and lectured around the world.