2018

Corticosterone and pyridostigmine/DEET exposure attenuate peripheral cytokine expression: supporting a dominant role for neuroinflammation in a mouse model of Gulf War Illness (2018) Michalovicz et al. (Drs Klimas, Fletcher are part of the authors) (I could not fit the whole title with the year...

Defining the minimally clinically important difference of the SF-36 physical function subscale for paediatric CFS/ME: triangulation using three different methods Amberly Brigden Roxanne M Parslow Daisy Gaunt Simon M Collin Andy Jones Esther Crawley...

National Standards for Public Involvement in Research: missing the forest for the trees Abstract Biomedical research funding bodies across Europe and North America increasingly encourage—and, in some cases, require—investigators to involve members of the public in funded research. Yet there...

http://www.virology.ws/2018/10/19/my-letter-to-organizer-of-4th-columbia-psychosomatics-conference/

ME/CFS is not a psychosomatic illness W. Ian Lipkin, Director of the Center for Infection and Immunity and the Center for Solutions for ME/CFS at Columbia University, has written the following letter several days before the Fourth Annual Conference on Psychosomatics at Columbia University this...

Sarah Jenette Knight1,2,3*, Jennifer Politis1,4, Christine Garnham1,4, Adam Scheinberg1,2,3,5 and Michelle Anne Tollit1,2,4,6 1Murdoch Children's Research Institute, Melbourne, VIC, Australia 2The Royal Children's Hospital, Melbourne, VIC, Australia 3Department of Pediatrics, The University of...

Exercise-induce hyperalgesia, complement system and elastase activation in Myalgic Encephalomyelitis/Chronic Fatigue Syndrome - a secondary analysis of experimental comparative studies Polli A1, Van Oosterwijck J2,3, Meeus M3,4, Lambrecht L5, Nijs J6, Ickmans K6. Author information 1 Pain in...

Latest from David Tuller: After I posted yesterday’s blog about Per Fink’s upcoming appearance at the fourth annual Columbia Psychosomatic Conference being held this weekend, I received the following e-mail from Columbia’s Alla Landa. She is an assistant professor of “clinical psychology in...

Per Fink in New York Someone uninformed or stupid or maybe both decided to invite Danish physician Per Fink to present at a conference on so-called psychosomatic medicine being held this weekend at Columbia University

Just spotted this on ME Research UK's Facebook page. [The current committee member list can be found on this page, https://www.nice.org.uk/guidance/indevelopment/gid-ng10091/documents. Previously I linked directly to it but NICE keep changing the file name, this way, hopefully, the latest...

Just received notice that NICE have published their final scope for their review of the diagnosis and management guidelines. Final scope can be viewed here, https://www.nice.org.uk/guidance/gid-ng10091/documents/final-scope Stakeholder comments and responses from NICE can be viewed here...

Paper: Traditional Chinese medicinal herbs for the treatment of idiopathic chronic fatigue and chronic fatigue syndrome Authors: Denise Adams, Taixiang Wu, Xunzhe Yang, Shusheng Tai, Sunita Vohra Date: October 15, 2018 URL...

Shame about the title. "The association and the Geisel School of Medicine at Dartmouth are hosting a screening and panel discussion of Unrest at Dartmouth-Hitchcock Medical Center on Tuesday." "At least two Upper Valley clinicians seeking to improve the medical community’s understanding of...

Not at all sure of the value of this. Paywall at https://journals.lww.com/otology-neurotology/Abstract/publishahead/Can_a_Chronic_BPPV_With_a_History_of_Trauma_be_the.96598.aspx

There will be an episode of the Australian current affairs program, “Insight”, on ME/CFS on October 16. Insight is a panel discussion program which tends to try to highlight all sides of an issue. As such, the guests on the ME/CFS episode range from athletes who claim to have recovered, a...

https://www.meaction.net/2018/10/11/meaction-sends-recommendations-to-cdc-for-me-website/ Direct link to PDF with recommendations - http://www.meaction.net/wp-content/uploads/2018/10/Recommended-Changes-to-the-CDC-Webpages-on-ME-2.pdf

Source: National Institutes of Health Date: October 11, 2018 URL: http://list.nih.gov/cgi-bin/wa.exe?A0=NIH-MECFS_INFORMATION News from NIH: ME/CFS Telebriefing- October 23, 2018 ---------------------------------------------------- We request your participation in a telebriefing about...

From FB 8th Oct The Impatient Revolution 8 October at 09:50 · Summary of today’s four hour interview with Professor Malcolm Hooper (UK) on ME, Lyme, human rights and global health policies that are based on fraudulent research. The full interview will be included in Huib Kraaijeveld’s new...

Always a bit worrying to see AfME on these things, given that they basically don't seem to understand ME/CFS. Without knowing the content, it's hard to know how pleased to be about this, though the presence of Dr Shepherd is somewhat reassuring.

New Trial by Error by @dave30th