Listen to blog Introducing BHC's New Medical Director: Douglas Jones, MD A note from Tahlia Ruschioni, Executive Director, and Lucinda Bateman, MD, Founder and Chief Medical Officer Over this past year, we have been doing a great deal of work, quietly, to strengthen...
Listen to blog Audio generated by AI At a Glance The issue: Many people with ME/CFS and Long COVID experience clear symptoms of orthostatic intolerance (OI) — feeling significantly worse when upright — but are told their autonomic testing is "normal" because...
Listen to blog Audio generated by AI At a Glance What is OI? An umbrella term for symptoms that worsen when standing and improve when lying down. It's a hallmark feature of ME/CFS, Long COVID, and other infection-associated chronic conditions (IACCs). Why test? Most...
Listen to blog Audio generated by AI At a Glance New Research Focus: NIH and NIAID leaders propose a shift toward infectious diseases and immunology as core research priorities. Recognition of Post-Infectious Illness: The vision highlights conditions that can develop...
In response to the interest generated from our Q&A on the use of Oxaloacetate in ME/CFS, this blog delves deeper into the research. New Research Links Cognitive Gains to Fatigue Reduction in ME/CFS Trial of Oxaloacetate A new clinical trial led by...
New CPET Guidelines: What They Mean for People with ME/CFS The American College of Sports Medicine's Guidelines for Exercise Testing and Prescription, for the first time, includes a section on ME/CFS. ACSM is a leading authority on exercise science, and these...
When the Body’s Alarm Won’t Turn Off: New Clues to ME/CFS from Exercise Research Blog Summary Imagine if a fire alarm kept ringing long after the smoke was gone. That’s similar to what happens in myalgic encephalomyelitis/chronic fatigue syndrome (ME/CFS),...
New Hope in Fibromyalgia Treatment: Understanding Tonmya Quick Take Fibromyalgia has long been a frustrating condition for both patients and doctors. It causes widespread pain, poor sleep, exhaustion, “fibro-fog” (trouble with memory and concentration), and...
Mitochondria in the Spotlight: From NIH Recognition to Research Advances When the National Institutes of Health (NIH) released its recent Research in Context feature on mitochondria, it did something that may have gone unnoticed by many but was profoundly significant...
Understanding the Potential of Oxaloacetate for Long COVID and ME/CFS A Q&A with Suzanne Vernon, PhD and Jennifer Bell, FNP-C The REGAIN study, published in Frontiers in Neuroscience, explored the effects of oxaloacetate (OAA), a naturally occurring compound, on...
An AI Map of a Puzzling Illness: How BioMapAI Tries to Decode ME/CFS, One Symptom at a Time Myalgic encephalomyelitis/chronic fatigue syndrome (ME/CFS) is notorious for its complexity: a disabling illness marked by crushing fatigue, post‑exertional malaise, pain,...
As a mother who has watched my child suffer with ME/CFS for ten years, I felt a complex mix of validation and heartbreak reading the groundbreaking study published in JAMA Pediatrics. Finally, researchers are documenting what I've witnessed firsthand: viruses can...
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.