Sly Saint
Senior Member (Voting Rights)
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"The association and the Geisel School of Medicine at Dartmouth are hosting a screening and panel discussion of Unrest at Dartmouth-Hitchcock Medical Center on Tuesday."
"At least two Upper Valley clinicians seeking to improve the medical community’s understanding of M.E. will be in attendance on Tuesday: Dr. Roshini Pinto-Powell, a D-H internist and associate dean of students at Geisel, and Dr. Robyn Jacobs, an obstetrician-gynecologist, who operates a private practice in Lebanon.
Both doctors have encountered patients with M.E. through their practices, and both agree with patients and advocates that the name “chronic fatigue syndrome” fails to capture the life-changing nature of the disease."
"Not all M.E. patients have found sympathetic doctors like Pinto-Powell. Unable to find a cause of an M.E. patient’s symptoms, many doctors have told patients that they were suffering from a psychological disorder."
"Eventually, in 2007, while she and her family were living in England, she received a more accurate diagnosis of M.E. But the correct diagnosis still didn’t pave the way to a cure. Instead, doctors recommended exercise therapy, which made her sicker because patients with M.E. tend to crash following exertion."
"In the Upper Valley, Paul Guyre and a team of researchers in a lab in the Borwell research building at DHMC are examining blood samples in search of a difference in immune response to infections in people with myalgic encephalomyelitis. Though the project is not yet NIH-funded, Guyre, an active emeritus professor of microbiology and immunology at Geisel, has applied for funding."
full article here:
https://www.vnews.com/Film-Shines-Light-on-Poorly-Understood-Debilitating-Illness-20784041
"Last year, the National Institutes of Health awarded grants totaling more than $7 million to develop a coordinated research effort into myalgic encephalomyelitis/chronic fatigue syndrome. That more than doubled the NIH’s spending on the disease between 2016 and 2017, and included funding for four ME/CFS research hubs across the U.S. that will receive a total of $36 million over the next five years.
Also last year, a Sundance award-winning documentary, Unrest, made by a woman who has struggled with the disease and includes her interviews over Skype with other sufferers, came out and it has given advocates and patients a tool."
"The association and the Geisel School of Medicine at Dartmouth are hosting a screening and panel discussion of Unrest at Dartmouth-Hitchcock Medical Center on Tuesday."
"At least two Upper Valley clinicians seeking to improve the medical community’s understanding of M.E. will be in attendance on Tuesday: Dr. Roshini Pinto-Powell, a D-H internist and associate dean of students at Geisel, and Dr. Robyn Jacobs, an obstetrician-gynecologist, who operates a private practice in Lebanon.
Both doctors have encountered patients with M.E. through their practices, and both agree with patients and advocates that the name “chronic fatigue syndrome” fails to capture the life-changing nature of the disease."
"Not all M.E. patients have found sympathetic doctors like Pinto-Powell. Unable to find a cause of an M.E. patient’s symptoms, many doctors have told patients that they were suffering from a psychological disorder."
"Eventually, in 2007, while she and her family were living in England, she received a more accurate diagnosis of M.E. But the correct diagnosis still didn’t pave the way to a cure. Instead, doctors recommended exercise therapy, which made her sicker because patients with M.E. tend to crash following exertion."
"In the Upper Valley, Paul Guyre and a team of researchers in a lab in the Borwell research building at DHMC are examining blood samples in search of a difference in immune response to infections in people with myalgic encephalomyelitis. Though the project is not yet NIH-funded, Guyre, an active emeritus professor of microbiology and immunology at Geisel, has applied for funding."
full article here:
https://www.vnews.com/Film-Shines-Light-on-Poorly-Understood-Debilitating-Illness-20784041