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Here's an explanation for that, and a new one Those who disagree with this body of evidence cite review articles and reanalyses of trial data published in low impact factor journals such as The Journal of Health Psychology and Fatigue: Biomedicine, Health & Behavior

I was going to add more quotes from the text which I found unbelievable, but it was impossible to choose just a few.

I spotted this on twitter today. An English news site in the Netherlands has written about the report: Dutch News.nl - ME sufferers "being let down by healthcare system" In an official report, the Gezondheidsraad said the chronic condition was too often downgraded to ‘fatigue’ or a problem...

ScienceAlert (an Australian-based news site for science reaching an international audience of 20 million readers on a weekly basis) has this article: Chronic Fatigue Syndrome Might Have a Crucial Hormonal Link

There's nothing new in this article from 17th March 2018. It gives a short introduction to ME and biomedical research, debunks GET and CBT as treatments and writes about the research at Griffith University in Australia. The article was first published last year, and is now published again...

It seems quite a few ME-patients in Norway have tried this after a news-story a few years back about an MS-patient who experienced a lot of symptoms got reversed with LDN. She was able to start working again. That led to more awareness about the drug among doctors and some have been willing to...

Threads about articles and people's experiences with LDN have been merged into this single thread. Medscape: Low-dose Naltrexone Explored as Option for Chronic Pain (by Miriam Tucker) Miriam Tucker's third article from the recent 2- day summit at the Bateman-Horne Center Low-dose Naltrexone...

Today's Science Wednesday post On this #OMFScienceWednesday we highlight a new project that OMF is funding, which proposes a new metabolic ‘trap’ hypothesis for ME/CFS. This project is just getting started under the direction of Dr. Robert Phair, Chief Science Officer of Integrative...

Miriam Tucker: Mast Cell Activation May Underlie CFS "ME/CFS is a descriptive diagnosis of a bunch of symptoms, but it says nothing about what's causing the symptoms, which is probably part of the reason it's so hard for it to get recognition. So, the question becomes, What other pathology is...

Trial By Error: The Dutch Review; My Trip; Bristol's Silence

Thanks for your input on this, @Jonathan Edwards It is not always that easy for us lay persons to distinguish between what is hype and what is hope.

Yes, this title was a tad sensational, but interesting read nevertheless. Short summary of article: Autoimmune diseases are on the rise. A team of researchers from Yale University may have found an underlying cause by linking autoimmune reactions to a bacteria in the gut called Enterococcus...

Background A psychologist and previous ME-patient, Nina Andresen, says she got well by her own efforts and hard work. She used to work at the centre of excellence of ME/CFS at Oslo university hospital and started a facebook group for those who have recovered of ME by their own methods - as...

Excellent article about Unrest from The Wire - India A Film on Chronic Fatigue Syndrome That Tells a Story We Don't Normally Hear Beyond the candy fluff of ‘Women’s Day’, Unrest raises the bar for intersectional approaches for feminists, disability rights activists and allies. Even if you abhor...

Latest #OMFScienceWednesday post (07.03.2018) OMF-funded research: diagnostic and drug-screening technology On this #OMFScienceWednesday we continue our series on research projects that OMF is funding all over the world, with a look at efforts to develop diagnostic and drug-screening technology...

Pacific Standard has a good article about Maya Dusenbery and her book Medical symptoms that medicine can't hear: A conversation with Maya Desenbery

Yesterday's news from the CFS/ME Research Collaborative A recap of yesterday's news and an email to Sue Paterson, director of legal services at the University of Bristol with an inquiry of professor Crawley's new role at Bristol and of more details about Crawley's departure.

We the patients care. This is about our health and our lives, for most of them it is just a job. I think this underlines how utmost important it is with proper patient representation and cooperation with patient organisations on all levels in medical research. Perhaps there should even be some...

No worries. You also had additional info :-) So great to see MP Monaghan keep pushing this!