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ME Research UK e-newsletter – July 2025

Interesting that males are more at risk than females of clinically diagnosed PACS here.

Sociodemographic factors, biomarkers and comorbidities associated with post-acute COVID-19 sequelae in UK Biobank Marta Alcalde-Herraiz, Shahed Iqbal, Jeffrey J. Wallin, Yunhao Liu, Wildaliz Nieves, Mark Berry, Marti Catala, Daniel Prieto-Alhambra & Junqing Xie [Line breaks added] Abstract...

Association of COVID vaccinations and treatments with long COVID beyond 6 months: a case-control study on the adult population in a large integrated healthcare system in the United States from 2020 to 2023 Curtis Liu, Celina Liu, Rui Yan, Davida Becker, Jia Xiao Shi, Jeffrey Slezak, Diane Jerng...

Effect of nonpharmacologic therapies on depressive symptoms in patients with chronic fatigue syndrome: a network meta-analysis Baiyi Jiang, Mengru Cao, Xue Xia, Long Wang Background Depression or depressive symptoms exacerbate the burden in patients with chronic fatigue syndrome (CFS). The...

Neuroimmune Modulation in Adults with Rheumatoid Arthritis and Inadequate Response or Intolerance to Biological or Targeted Synthetic DMARDs: Results at 12 and 24 Weeks from a Randomized, Sham-Controlled, Double-Blind Pivotal Study John Tesser, Joshua June, Pendleton Wickersham, Jane Box...

Gulf War Illness and Inflammation: Association of symptom severity with C-reactive protein Lisa M. James, Brian E. Engdahl, Rachel A. Johnson, Apostolos P. Georgopoulos [Line breaks added] Abstract Gulf War Illness (GWI) is a chronic multi-system condition that has affected one-third of U.S...

S4ME got a mention:

Science: "Genomewide study makes ‘quantum leap’ in understanding stuttering" 'In the new study, researchers turned to 23andMe, which assembled a vast database of users’ genetic information and other data. They analyzed the genetic profiles of 99,076 users who answered “yes” to the company’s...

Merged posts -------------------- ABC News: 'Justin Timberlake reveals Lyme disease diagnosis' 'Music superstar Justin Timberlake has been diagnosed with Lyme disease.' ----- '"If you've experienced this disease or know someone who has -- then you're aware: living with this can be...

This appears to be a followup to this previous study: Trial thread: Closed - Fred Friedberg (University of Stonybrook) Hydrogen Rich Water; Heart rate variability biofeedback in CFS Paper thread: Hydrogen water and heart rate variability biofeedback as treatments for chronic fatigue syndrome...

Email from Open Medicine Foundation: Heart rate variability as an autonomic marker of improvement in ME/CFS in a hydrogen water treatment study Volunteers needed. ME/CFS research of a potential treatment (Hydrogen Enriched Water) and treatment biomarker (heart rate variability). New 16-week...

Hydrogen Water Dosing Study for ME/CFS Sponsor Stony Brook University Information provided by Fred Friedberg, Stony Brook University Detailed description Previous clinical studies (8-12 week intervention trials) have indicated that H2 enriched water reduces concentrations of markers of...

Posting a newsletter @Peter T received: We want to share with you important behind-the-scenes work #MEAction is doing to help standardize how researchers measure post-exertional malaise (PEM) - the defining symptom of ME/CFS - in studies. Our Scientific Director, Jaime Seltzer, is a member...

Systematic review of post-COVID condition in Nordic population-based registry studies Jan Peter William Himmels, Karin Magnusson, Kjetil Gundro Brurberg [Line breaks added] Abstract The long-term effects of COVID-19, known as post-COVID condition (PCC), are still not fully understood. This...

Much appreciated, thanks @jnmaciuch.

Any chance you can explain the difference in the three columns and why they're not the same? (RNAseq, SAGE, and microarray)

Retraction Watch: 'Noticed: Sleuths are starting to get credit for retractions' ----- 'Pseudonymous sleuth Claire Francis has flagged thousands of papers over the years, so they rarely see something new. But an email from Frontiers about an upcoming retraction on a paper Francis originally...

I made a thread for the study here: https://www.s4me.info/threads/viral-spike-antigen-clearance-and-augmented-recovery-in-children-with-post-covid-mis-c-treated-with-larazotide-2025-yonker-et-al.45378/