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Unfortunately she didn't! Yes I hope we see the paper soon, looking forward to her Charite presentation.

Just wondering, as someone who barely ever (seated) showers because of it, why people think showering in particular is such a big cause of PEM and OI symptoms. My rationale for this post is it might give some clue as to what's going on with us.

I don't think Habets should be doing what he's doing at all, but if he is going to do it he should at least use a dosage of the drug that might have an effect, rather than just cause anti drug effect/immunity. In light of that i think this low dose dara/Teclistamab nonsense is actually more...

Fluge said at Charite an American company was considering a trial in ME/CFS.

If daratumumab turns out to work, perhaps this anti CD38 CAR-T will be the future of ME/CFS treatment https://pmc.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/articles/PMC10225187/

Okay then you have seriously misunderstood. F&M observed massive improvements in cancer patients with ME/CFS following treatment for cancer. So significant they were asking for more chemotherapy. They have followed this clinical observation through several drug trials, including a positive phase...

I'm not sure that anyone here is doing that?

I'm not a huge fan of Cort's 'everything is true even conflicting things' approach to MECFS science but the below quote sounds quite a good idea to me:

If dara turns out to really work like in the pilot it will be close to a silver bullet for at least a subset of pwME. The psychobehavioural school cannot demonstrate any significant improvement at all in a decent trial, let alone anything close to what the dara pilot showed. I fail to see how...

On a related note, do we know if Altmann is aware of the CD38 finding in the Mensah/Armstrong/Cambridge study? That might be a good one for him to try and replicate.

My issue is that Wirth has done no basic research in ME/CFS, has only published hypothesis papers, and has gone straight to drug development. If it turns out to work I'll be over the moon but I can't bring myself to get excited until I see some solid science behind it. This guy Ussher also...

Where did we land on the possibility of preliminary results being announced/presented before all patients have completed the 72 week monitoring period? I think we were generally of the opinion that the given date of 2029 was probably the worst case scenario for preprint publication, and 2028...

Is it possible that these antibodies are a) pathogenic and b) killed by dara but not rituximab (i.e. anti cd38 but not anti cd20)?

Is there currently any way to get an up to date novavax shot in the UK?

What video was it you showed her, out of interest?

The thing I'm currently feeling trepidation about is the upcoming severe patient case study. If the severe patients with higher NK cells don't respond I'm going to find that difficult to cope with. Of course a handful of unblinded patients isn't exactly definitive proof but if they react like...

Ah right, I think this question was saying could PEM be caused by different things, rather than PEM causes different subtypes of symptoms. As to what you said yes I think were in agreement.

Can you explain why you think this? I'm not sure what makes this more likely than there being a single upstream cause of ME/PEM. I'm not dismissing the possibility here, I'm just interested in your reasoning.

In terms of hypothesis I'm pretty convinced by the idea of an immune signalling loop perpetuating ME/CFS. In terms of specifics I'm not really qualified to judge but I find the idea of JE et al's T cell and IFNg mediated hypothesis, jnmaciuch's interferon/mtDNA hypothesis, and the idea of some...

I saw it quoted on Bluesky the other day iirc. I think it was a screenshot of a twitter post. Pinker sharing an article about 'patient activists' harassing CFS researchers etc. If I find it again I'll link it.