XMRV - comments from the Chief Medical Officer on blood donation and blood transfusion services
British News
Friday 13th November 2009
The ME Association wrote to Sir Liam Donaldson, Chief Medical Officer at the Department of Health, in October in relation to XMRV research – in particular the situation regarding blood donation and blood transfusion services here in the UK.
Top scientists to meet at Cleveland Clinic on trail of XMRV, a suspect in prostate cancer
American News
Tuesday 10th November 2009
The virus XMRV has become a favorite topic in the scientific community -- three years after its initial discovery in prostate cancer tumors by researchers from the Cleveland Clinic and the University of California, San Francisco.
Result! ME is re-categorised on the NHS Choices website
British News
Friday 6th November 2009
When the NHS Choices website posted the Independent's story about researchers finding a “strong link” with a retrovirus called XMRV, I was dismayed to see that it was listed in the menu under the "mental health" category.
Questions in Parliament: notifiable illness in schools and funding for biomedical research
British News
Thursday 5th November 2009
Parliamentary questions about making ME/CFS a notifiable illness in schools and the level of Government funding for biomedical research into illness in the 2008-9 financial year were answered in the form of written replies yesterday (5 November 2009).
XMRV and blood donation - update following letter to the Chief Medical Officer
British News
Thursday 5th November 2009
The ME Association wrote to Sir Liam Donaldson, Chief Medical Officer at the Department of Health, on Tuesday 27 October about XMRV research.
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