Category: Clinical Care

BHC Program and Research Update

by Angela Linford | Nov 20, 2017 | Clinical Care, Fibromyalgia, ME/CFS, Patient Education | 0 Comments

BHC’s mission is to empower patients, advance research, and improve clinical care. What is happening to further those goals? At the November education meeting, Dr. Lucinda Bateman and Dr. Suzanne Vernon shared updates on the programs BHC is developing to ensure that this mission is accomplished. Highlights include development of a patient education program to empower patients, a practitioner education program that will improve clinical care, and implementation of a major research grant to advance the search for biomarkers.

ME/CFS and Related Illness: Putting It All Together

by Angela Linford | Oct 30, 2017 | Clinical Care, Fibromyalgia, ME/CFS, Patient Education | 0 Comments

Understanding how ME/CFS and Fibromyalgia are related to and affected by other illnesses is key in helping patients find relief from symptoms. At the BHC Education Meeting in October, Dr. Nathan Holladay gave a broad view of the key aspects of the various problems that can cause these diseases or make them worse, including infections, immune system issues, and mitochondrial, metabolic, and endocrine dysfunction. Making the connections between these illnesses can help doctors and patients decide on customized treatment methods rather than “one-size-fits-all” treatments.

Building the Ranks of Skillful and Informed Medical Providers

by Lucinda Bateman, MD | Aug 9, 2017 | Clinical Care, Fibromyalgia, ME/CFS, Patient Education | 0 Comments

BHC Strategies for Bringing Doctors up to Speed on ME/CFS and FM presented by Lucinda Bateman, MD, BHC Founder and Medical Director Improving the way medical providers understand, diagnose, and treat ME/CFS and Fibromyalgia is critical to progress and a primary...

Welcome to the Microorganism Hotel

by TheresaDowell | Jul 27, 2017 | Clinical Care, ME/CFS, Patient Education, Research News | 0 Comments

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...

CFSAC Education Workgroups Seeking Patient Input

by Leigh | Jun 15, 2017 | Clinical Care, ME/CFS, Patient Voice | 0 Comments

BHC has converted their questions into a simple online questionnaire The Chronic Fatigue Syndrome Advisory Committee (CFSAC) provides advice and recommendations to the Secretary of Health and Human Services (HHS) through the Assistant Secretary for Health on issues...

NASA 10-Minute Lean Test

by Leigh | Jun 13, 2017 | BHC News, Clinical Care, Current BHC Patient News, Patient Education | 0 Comments

A Simple Way to Assess Orthostatic Intolerance On June 7, 2017, at the monthly BHC Education Meeting, Pelle Wall, BHC Research Coordinator, reviewed the procedure and shared information about the research underway. [embedyt]...

4 Tips to Improve Doctor-Patient Communication

by Leigh | Mar 30, 2017 | Clinical Care, Fibromyalgia, ME/CFS, Patient Education | 0 Comments

Effective doctor-patient communication is critical to building a therapeutic doctor-patient relationship, which is at the heart of delivering high-quality healthcare. When there is open and productive communication, doctors and patients are more effective in...

Guest Post: Student Seeking Feedback from ME/CFS Patients

by Leigh | Feb 2, 2017 | Clinical Care, Uncategorized | 0 Comments

Brooke Denmark, a student working on her Masters in Social Work, contacted the Bateman Horne Center asking us to share her thesis research questionnaire in order to garner feedback from those living with ME/CFS. Your participation as a research participants merely...

A Report of Clinical Progress in 2016

by Lucinda Bateman, MD | Dec 16, 2016 | BHC News, Clinical Care, Fibromyalgia, ME/CFS | 0 Comments

Improved objective diagnosis and the ability to assess treatment outcomes, has made many aspects of MECFS and FM appear before my eyes. I am committed to infusing the medical community with this information to dramatically improve patient diagnosis and treatment....

Simple Way to Assess Orthostatic Intolerance

by Lucinda Bateman, MD | Sep 27, 2016 | Clinical Care, Fibromyalgia, ME/CFS, Patient Education | 0 Comments

NASA 10 Minute Lean Test* Orthostatic intolerance (OI) is an umbrella term used to describe abnormal autonomic nervous system response to orthostatic challenge. Orthostatic hypotension (OH), neurally mediated hypotension (NMH) [or neurogenic hypotension] and postural...

First-Class Care; First-Class Space

by Leigh | Aug 30, 2016 | BHC News, Clinical Care, Current BHC Patient News, Fibromyalgia, ME/CFS, Patient Education, Press | 0 Comments

In our spring campaign we set a goal to raise $300,000 that would allow us to move into a larger facility in order to serve more patients, expand education efforts, and increase research participation. Earlier this month, we announced that we had exceeded our goal by...

BHC Screens Forgotten Plague, Hosts Discussion

by Leigh | Apr 19, 2016 | BHC News, Clinical Care, ME/CFS, Patient Education | 0 Comments

In late March, the Bateman Horne Center (BHC) held a screening of The Forgotten Plague: a Documentary of Life with M.E. The showing, presented in collaboration with the Westminster College Pre-Professional Health Society, brought together more than 100 people in...

Clinical Care

BHC Program and Research Update

ME/CFS and Related Illness: Putting It All Together

Building the Ranks of Skillful and Informed Medical Providers

Welcome to the Microorganism Hotel

CFSAC Education Workgroups Seeking Patient Input

NASA 10-Minute Lean Test

4 Tips to Improve Doctor-Patient Communication

Guest Post: Student Seeking Feedback from ME/CFS Patients

A Report of Clinical Progress in 2016

Simple Way to Assess Orthostatic Intolerance

First-Class Care; First-Class Space

BHC Screens Forgotten Plague, Hosts Discussion

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