A bit more on the sample selection I'm not sure how well matched the samples were. They don't say they attempted to match. Reported mean ages...
Good initial sample size: 131 ME/CFS (Fukuda +CCC+ other requirements such as acute onset), 86 healthy controls Smaller sample size for the...
Instead, I think it's reasonable to argue that the fact that the two LC groups showed very similar persistent symptoms suggests that...
Wonderful presentation and question answering by Gracemarie Bricalli - approx 10 minutes all up.:thumbup: I hope that we have Gracemarie as a...
I have found rhabdomyolysis interesting in the context of ME/CFS before, given the symptoms of muscle pain and stiffness. I can get a series of...
Thanks for bringing this to our attention @mango. I think it is a condition that people with ME/CFS symptoms should consider. It sounds as...
McArdle Disease, 2023, Khattak and Ashram
Further posts related to the dietician's queries have been moved to a new discussion thread: Issues to consider in dietary intervention studies in...
Excellent points @Trish, @Ravn and @Midnattsol. As well as ensuring that participants do in fact have ME/CFS, it might be necessary to have even...
An update: I've followed up again - the reply has been drafted and has gone to senior management for approval. I should get something this week....
Change in the methylation of circadian-related genes with HIV infection The authors talk about two different methods of determining methylation...
The issue exposed and unexposed groups potentially being different in much more than just exposure is not a problem in this analysis, where they...
Nine immune cell types Samples of immune cells from 112 donors Donors covered specific known viral, bacterial and chemical exposures...
If that's true now, or can be in the future, that will be a major advance in environmental medicine. It would be amazing to be able to correlate...
That is a terrific letter. It's really heartening to see a response like that.
Thanks for posting. It's a small study, but it's certainly not confirming the 'HPA axis' idea that so many people who think these sorts of...
The paper claims the following: A. Evidence for frequent HSV-1 and EBV reactivation in both ME/CFS and LC B. Experimental reasoning for cellular...
Thanks for your post @DMissa. I agree with it, except this point. I don't think we have yet seen good evidence that ME/CFS-like Long Covid is...
There's discussion of this work on this thread: Research news from Bhupesh Prusty
It's quite depressing, isn't it? These people think it's fine to dump people in a psychosomatic bucket, seemly oblivious to the enormous harm...
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