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Imagine a World Where Doctors Understand People with ME/CFS and Long COVID

Imagine a world where your doctor can diagnose your disease and understand how to offer the right support.

Open Medicine Foundation (OMF) and the Bateman Horne Center (BHC) created the Medical Education Resource Center to help patients and providers with the resources they need to reduce suffering and manage symptoms. 

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Read this powerful testimony from one of the individuals whose life has been touched by this partnership:

"I want to express my sincere gratitude for the educational lectures you share on YouTube. Thanks to the invaluable information provided, both my cardiologist and primary care physician were able to diagnose and assist me in managing orthostatic intolerance. I am now experiencing a notable improvement in my overall well-being. While I may not be entirely free of health issues, I am certainly better equipped to navigate and manage my condition. This progress is a testament to the effectiveness of the strategies I've learned and implemented, largely due to the educational resources you provide. I may not be in perfect health, but I am undoubtedly better at managing my illness, and for that, I am immensely grateful. Thank you for your dedication and support."

-J, BHC YouTube Follower

Through education, advocacy, and community, the OMF and BHC’s Medical Education Resource Center provides a safe space for sharing experiences, finding solace, and accessing vital resources.

Orthostatic Intolerance

Watch this video, where Clayton Powers, DPT, takes us through the fundamentals of Orthostatic Intolerance (OI). With clarity and expertise, he shares the definition of OI, explains its symptoms, and provides invaluable insights into managing this condition, particularly through pacing upright activity.

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Would you consider a donation today? Your gift will enable us to continue to fund essential provider education, expand our reach, and empower more patients and caregivers on their journey toward health and understanding.

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Microvesicles and viral sequencing
Microvesicles are a type of extracellular vesicle that is released from the cell membrane. Vesicles are small, fluid-filled sacs or vacuoles within the body. Sequencing is a technique used to determine the exact sequence of bases (A, C, G, and T) in a DNA (or viral) molecule.
NMR Metabolomics
NMR (Nuclear Magnetic Resonance) is an instrument/tool used to perform metabolic studies, metabolic profiling, and metabolomics in biofluids and tissues for more than 40 years using magnetic fields. There is a very close connection between metabolic measurements and NMR. This connection has flourished because of NMR’s many unique strengths for characterizing complex mixtures’ chemical composition.
Proteomics
The large-scale study of proteins, which are large, complex molecules that are required for structure, function, and regulation of the human body's tissues and organs.
Autoantibodies
Antibodies that react with self-molecules and that occur in healthy individuals and are referred to as natural antibodies or autoantibodies.
Extracellular DNA for viral reactivation and Mitochondrial DNA
exDNA (extracellular DNA), exDNA is often secreted actively and is used to perform several tasks, thereby offering an attractive target or tool for biotechnological, medical, environmental, and general microbiological applications. Viruses are intracellular parasites that rely to a significant extent on the host cell for replication. Viral reactivation occurs when an active replication of the viral genome results in a lytic (degradation of the cell) infection characterized by the release of new progeny (descendant) virus particles.
Immune cell profiling
The immune system has many important regulatory roles in disease development and progression. Given the emergence of effective immune therapies, reliable predictors of response are needed. Immune cell profiling determines response by evaluating immune cell populations from treated and untreated samples. For our purposes, we will evaluate the white blood cell response to the viral infection using a process called “Cytof.”
Leukocyte Genomics
A leukocyte is a colorless cell circulating in the blood and body fluids and is involved in counteracting foreign substances and disease. A genome is all genetic material of an organism. Genomics is a biology field focusing on the structure, function, evolution, mapping, and editing of genomes. Therefore, leukocyte genomics is the study of all genetic material of leukocytes.
Metabolomics
Metabolomics is a way to study metabolism – that is, through measuring amounts of the metabolites (small molecules) produced by our bodies as we convert food into energy and other molecules that our cells need to survive. Metabolomics technology is ‘large-scale,’ meaning that several thousand metabolites can be measured from a single sample of e.g., blood or urine.
Micro RNA
Cells use Micro RNA to control whether a particular gene is making too much, too little or the normal amount of its protein at a particular time.