Lots of people will attend the event: Jessica Taylor-Bearman, Dr Luis Nacal and members of the UK ME/CFS Biobank team, Dr William Weir, Dr Ian Gibson, Dr Gabrielle Murphy (hum), and Professor @Jonathan Edwards...
Diagnostic criteria
There are numerous diagnostic criteria for ME and CFS. Below are links to the articles defining the main ones.
Post-exertional malaise (PEM) is now considered by most researchers to be a core symptom of ME/CFS. Some diagnostic criteria (Holmes, Oxford and Fukuda criteria)...
Rituximab (RituxME)
Clinical impact of B-cell depletion with the anti-CD20 antibody rituximab in chronic fatigue syndrome: a preliminary case series
Øystein Fluge and Olav Mella
BMC Neurology
2009
Link to article
Benefit from B-Lymphocyte Depletion Using the Anti-CD20 Antibody Rituximab in...
Are current chronic fatigue syndrome criteria diagnosing different disease phenotypes?
Laura Maclachlan, Stuart Watson, Peter Gallagher, Andreas Finkelmeyer, Leonard A. Jason, Madison Sunnquist, Julia L. Newton
Plos One - oct 2017...
The journalist quotes Avindra Nath, Ian Lipkin, Jose Montoya, Zaher Nahle.
https://www.webmd.com/chronic-fatigue-syndrome/news/20171020/solving-the-mystery-of-chronic-fatigue
The Guardian / Unrest review – powerful documentary about chronic fatigue syndrome
by Leslie Felperin
Short review...
https://www.theguardian.com/film/2017/oct/19/unrest-review-powerful-documentary-about-chronic-fatigue-syndrome?CMP=share_btn_tw
Cosmopolitan UK : What it’s like to live with an incurable illness no-one believes is real
http://www.cosmopolitan.com/uk/body/a13044515/me-myalgic-encephalomyelitis-jennifer-brea-chronic-fatigue-unrest-film/
Edit: As a reminder, there was another article in Cosmo.com a few days ago...
I don't know any of the signatories.
https://www.thecanary.co/discovery/2017/10/18/dozens-leading-professionals-just-slammed-theresa-mays-controversial-new-mental-health-guru-letter/
PS/ I'll ask to put this thread in the psychosocial news when it's open.
The Times / Our lives were frozen by chronic fatigue syndrome
By Damian Whitworth
https://www.thetimes.co.uk/edition/...-frozen-by-chronic-fatigue-syndrome-rdftnm75p
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