Gene profiling of patients with chronic fatigue syndrome/myalgic encephalomyelitis
British News
Thursday 20th November 2008
The possibility that these subtypes represent individual host responses to particular microbial infections is being investigated and may provide another route to specific therapies for CFS patients.
News of the newly formed European ME Alliance from Invest In ME
British News
Tuesday 18th November 2008
The European ME Alliance is a collaboration of ME organisations within Europe who have the common aim of promoting biomedical research into Myalgic Encephalomyelitis (known as ME or ME/CFS) and increasing awareness of this debilitating neurological illness.
Vaccine-related chronic fatigue syndrome in an individual demonstrating aluminium overload
British News
Tuesday 18th November 2008
A team of scientists have investigated a case of vaccine-associated chronic fatigue syndrome (CFS) and macrophagic myofasciitis in an individual demonstrating aluminium overload.
Judge finds rural dwellers are harmed by crop sprays
British News
Friday 14th November 2008
A woman who has fought for seven years to control use of pesticides on farmland near private houses is celebrating a landmark legal victory.
Suzanne: 'I thought I was dying'
British News
Tuesday 11th November 2008
SUZANNE Shaw has spoken frankly about suffering from ME - or chronic fatigue syndrome - which has caused her to be so exhausted she initially thought she was dying.
Doctor! Take My Symptoms Seriously! Diagnosing Contested and Emerging illnesses
American News
Sunday 9th November 2008
Science is a slow process, particularly when it comes to diagnosing emerging illnesses. To a great extent, patient suffering occurs in the absence of medical and scientific consensus on the cause of an illness. Without a clear consensus, doctors are led to believe illness is psychological and patients are given useless, and sometimes harmful, psychiatric therapies.
'I found my own diagnosis on the net'
British News
Saturday 8th November 2008
When Denzil Searle first fell ill he assumed he had flu. But after a few days it became clear that it was something else.
Thrilling Results Already In the Works at Reno’s Whittemore Peterson Institute
American News
Wednesday 5th November 2008
The Whittemore-Peterson Institute for Neuro Immune Disease (the world’s first research center for ME/CFS and fibromyalgia) is still under construction at the University of Nevada-Reno. But the research team has ‘feet on the ground’ - and leaders say they’ll have important accomplishments to present to the world within a year.
The Countess of Mar’s meeting with ME patient organisations
British News
Sunday 2nd November 2008
On 8 October, in the hour prior to the last meeting of the APPG on ME, the Countess of Mar chaired a private meeting with selected ME patient organisations.
Adequate vitamin D may offer relief from winter aches
American News
Sunday 2nd November 2008
The inadequate level of vitamin D, also known as “sunshine vitamin” can lead to depression, fatigue and even aches and pains during winter months when sunshine is low as people are not getting enough vitamin D.
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