An email from ANZMES (one of NZ's ME/CFS charities). Covid-19 is just now starting to spread around the country. Professor Tate is highly...
Here's the forum thread discussing the paper @Digital Drifter quoted above. Prevalence of (ME/CFS) in three regions of England: a repeated...
I'll be interested to read this if it becomes accessible. Where are the stats? I had hoped Neil Harrison would get over his involvement with...
Welcome to the forum @ola_cohn. Sadly, we haven't seen @Allele on the forum for a while now.
The BPS people were on the ball. Depression in adults with a chronic physical health problem: recognition and management NICE Clinical guideline...
Just to be clear, I make no claims about how many people in the UK have ME, or ME/CFS. (If I have somewhere, I certainly should not have.) I...
No, but it can involve the therapist attempting to persuade the patient that symptoms or lack of well-being is caused by something the patient is...
Same. She's great about acknowledging her team of researchers too; it feels as though she has researchers covering a lot of what is potentially...
There were a few other issues of interest - a question about coding revealed that this issue is not given enough attention. Lucinda Bateman...
Mitochondrial dysfunction Nath said that they had found nothing to note in the mitochondrial genome. Seahorse analyses did find mitochondrial...
Orthostatic intolerance and cardiovascular issues Avi Nath does not consider POTS or fibromyalgia to be co-morbidities, but instead part of the...
The gut microbiome Lipkin reported that there tends to be a lot more faecal bacteria in the faeces of ME/CFS patients than healthy controls but a...
Gene expression in individual types of blood cells One result that I will be looking out for is from Maureen Hansen's team, some work led by...
Sex, age, illness duration specific differences In addition to Nath, Lipkin noted that there are sex and age differences in the data e.g. in...
Map ME/CFS and Search ME/CFS (on ME/CFS net) Map ME/CFS is a repository for ME/CFS data (e.g. genomics, cytokines, protein expression)....
Here's some of the points that I thought were key, or interesting: NIH funding for ME/CFS Vicky Whittemore noted that 10% of NIH/ funds is used...
The US Massachusetts ME/CFS & FM Association hosted a 3.5 hour webinar on 23 October 2021 Speakers included Phil Chernin (President Mass ME/CFS...
500 people registered for the event. Vicky Whittemore helped the group organise it - we are lucky to have her as an ally in the NIH. She...
The webinar is being recorded and will be posted on You tube in a few weeks.
Great point. Yes, the Dubbo study, looking at a population based sample of people who got EBV/glandular fever, Ross river fever and Q fever is...
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