Brian Vastag

Brian Vastag is a journalist, previously with the United States The Washington Post, advocate, and person living with ME/CFS. When the National Institutes of Health announced in late 2015 they would be increasing funding for myalgic encephalomyelitis/chronic fatigue syndrome (ME/CFS), Francis Collins called a number of advocates including Brian Vastag to break the news.

In 2015 he confirmed his latest project was contributing to a new edition of The Science Writers' Handbook.

In 2012, he was a News Winner of the David Perlman Award for Excellence in Science Journalism for his article, “For Virginia’s fault zone, an event of rare magnitude,” published 23 August 2011 in The Washington Post about an earthquake near Washington, D.C.

Disability claim
On May 31, 2018, the United States District Court of New Jersey in Brian Vastag v. Prudential Insurance Company of America, Civ. No. 15-6197 (KSH), (CLW), awarded Mr. Vastag both short-term disability (STD) and long-term disability (LTD) noting "the plan administrator improperly denied him STD and LTD benefits payable under the plan".

Online presence

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Learn more

 * 2015, "I’m disabled. Can NIH spare a few dimes?"
 * 2015, "The Tragic Neglect of Chronic Fatigue Syndrome" by Olga Khazan for The Atlantic
 * Washington Post - Brian Vastag