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It's interesting that Dr. Komaroff now seems to be allied with Columbia's Center for Solutions. I wonder if this is a recent development. P.S. I have to admire a man with the 5 Platonic solids on his desk (though this may not be his desk). I used to have an icosahedron on mine. :)

It seems like their motivation for creating PIFS was to keep patients with positive laboratory indications of infection from confounding the result from their supposedly "non-infectious onset" CFS patients.* But that's really not going to work if you don't take into account "probable infectious...

Is there any research which distinguishes PVFS from ME/CFS? When you search for "Post-Viral Fatigue Syndrome" on Wikipedia you are redirected to the "Chronic Fatigue Syndrome" page, which asserts that Chronic Fatigue Syndrome is the same thing as Myaglic Encephalomyeltits. Yet, I would assume...

I wouldn't be too worried about the review's delay. I'm sure that top men are working on it right now. Top men.

8. Recommend that those affected jump onto a paper circle and yell out "HOT!"

Not that I think this is involved in ME, but there are hospital-based devices that employ "teletherapy," i.e... The devices are safe so long as the shielding is not removed. About six years ago, thieves in Mexico stole a truck containing such a device. They apparently were only after the...

I don't know much about them, but I believe this idea of radiation and CFS is mainly the interest of the "National CFIDS Foundation," http://www.ncf-net.org/ - which seems to be based out of Massachusetts. They have a web page of links to articles concerning radiation and health...

I think it's actually an "honorary" degree, but I also would have accepted an "ornery degree." :)

Do we know if the patients they've tested have come from a variety of severity levels? I'm just thinking that severe patients might be more likely to be a homogeneous group, even though I'm sure that Stanford screens all patients to the extent possible.

Dr. Phair has said that when he first started looking into ME/CFS he realized that if a genetic mutation were involved it would have to be relatively common. Why? Because only a common genetic factor could explain the outbreaks where the attack rates could be as high as 25%. He was also looking...

The prize awarded to by the Jutlandic Medical Society for "Civil Courage" is not the same as the "Civil Courage Prize" awarded by the Train Foundation at http://www.civilcourageprize.org/. The former comes with a $3,700 dollar prize; the latter with a $50,000 prize. The Train Foundation holds...

There seems to be an "official" organization that has trademarked the term "Civil Courage Prize," and its related symbol, in the U.S. http://www.civilcourageprize.org/ I get the feeling that this organization had nothing directly to do with the prize awarded by the Jutlandic Medical...

This award may set some new kind of record for cluelessness (on a per fink basis, of course). Way to go Jutlandic Medical Society! :thumbup: /s [ETA: It's a $3,700 prize.]

If these funds would be coming from the Defense Department budget, would that mean that research would be limited to military members who had ME/CFS, somewhat like Nancy Klimas' Gulf War Illness research? I suppose ME/CFS research could be attached to the DoD's GWI research program, as the...

I suspect that what patients actually hear more often than "It's all in you head" is something along the lines of "Maybe it's all in your head," or "Do you think it's possible that it's all in your head?" It's easy to dismiss a doctor who gives you an absolute like "It's all in your head." By...

I thought this was a very informative interview, densely packed with information on a variety of subjects. Lewellyn King is clearly well-versed in recent developments and asks very pertinent questions. If one pays as close attention to the news as the members of this forum do, it may seem like...

"But thats so, easy! I should have thought of it myself!" ;)

Never having had any occasion to refer to a fold change in real life, for a long time I assumed it was 2^x, where x was the number of "folds," as in folding a piece of paper equally. So, three fold of something would be 8 times the original, because, in my mind, if you folded a piece of paper...

The article appeared in the journal "Health Care for Women International," which had a 2018 "impact factor" of 0.788. https://www.tandfonline.com/toc/uhcw20/current Anyone want to take up the challenge of summarizing the Wikipedia page on agential realism?

Just who are these "nonhuman agents," and what kind of commission do they get when they sell your house?