David Tuller is a senior fellow in public health in journalism at the Center of Global Public Health, School of Public Health, University of California, Berkeley, CA. For a decade, Tuller was a reporter and editor at The San Francisco Chronicle. He was health editor at Salon.com. Tuller frequently writes about health for The New York Times. He covered the PACE trial results for The Times in February 2011. If you found this program helpful or informative, please consider donating to support our efforts to bring more ME/CFS related interviews to YouTube: https://www.gofundme.com/MECFSAlert
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Living with ME/CFS: Robie’s Story | ME/CFS Alert Episode 99
Llewellyn King interviews 42-year-old Robie Robataille. In this video Robie talks about her difficulty in getting a diagnosis and her gradual decline to the way she lives now: She takes a couple of hours to wake in morning and can only stomach a shake made by her parents.
She speaks frankly about the loneliness of the disease, and how her two dogs and two cats mean so much to her; where one would long for human touch, she has only the caress of her animals. Robie tells the story of her decline over 15 years to a point, four years ago, when she had to abandon her home and life in Texas to be taken care of by her parents in Wrentham, MA.
VIDEO: Advancements in ME/CFS Research, David M. Systrom, MD; Brigham and Women’s Hospital | ME/CFSAlert 98
Dr. Systrom covers how an interest in exercise intolerance led him to MyalgicEncephalomyelitis. He talks about his work, a new research incubator he has assembled, the testing of an old medicine, Pyridostigmine, on ME patients and the importance for researchers to talk to each other.