CFS/ME Research & News

 

Garlic for Fibromyalgia & Chronic Fatigue Syndrome

American News

 

Thursday 29th July 2010

 

OK, so it makes your breath bad -- that's a small price to pay for a food that reduces inflammation, kills nasty bugs in your system, and tastes great on toast.

 

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    CFIDS Association Webinar: Dr. Racaniello and Dr. Bateman on XMRV

American News

 

Friday 16th July 2010

 

DR. RACANIELLO gave us a bird's eye of retroviruses. Right now there are two models for human infectious retroviruses; HIV, which replicates madly in immune cells and sends millions of virions into the blood to infect more cells and HTLV-1, which does not replicate much and does it's damage by turning on bad genes in the cells it is found in (sometimes turning them cancerous).

 

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Will Gulf War Veterans be tested for XMRV?

American News

 

Friday 16th July 2010

 

The battle over CFS/ME/GWI continues to heat up.

 

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Gun swimmer pulls pin for 2010

Australian News

 

Friday 16th July 2010

 

Still reeling from the retirements of Libby Trickett and Jodie Henry, the Dolphins are now getting their head around Campbell pulling out of August's Pan Pacs and October's Commonwealth Games.

 

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Potential XMRV-Chronic Fatigue Syndrome Link Not Easy to Tease Out

American News

 

Thursday 15th July 2010

 

The controversy surrounding XMRV, a virus that has been linked to chronic-fatigue syndrome and prostate cancer, has been heating up recently.

 

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Not ‘all in the mind’ - Health Division to reconsider its position on Chronic Fatigue Syndrome

Maltese News

 

Monday 12th July 2010

 

The case for listing Myalgic Encephalomyelitis (ME) on the register of free national health services may be reopened in future, after research has shed new light on a little-known and controversial condition.

 

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Study that 'solves' chronic fatigue syndrome blocked

British News

 

Friday 9th July 2010

 

A study that supports the controversial link between chronic fatigue syndrome and a new type of virus has been blocked from being published in a leading scientific journal even though it had been accepted for publication by its editors.

 

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Discovery Could Lead to Treatment for Immune Problems in Chronic Fatigue Syndrome

American News

 

Tuesday 6th July 2010

 

 

Researchers say they've discovered a key factor in the body's production of T cells, white blood cells that are important to immune function. Some studies show people with chronic fatigue syndrome have reduced T cell response to certain infectious agents.

 

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ME sufferers don't have to feel isolated thanks to new group

British News

 

Saturday 3rd July 2010

 

Sarah Mann, of Burringham, Scunthorpe has set up a support group for sufferers of ME, who are often left feeling isolated because their condition leaves them unable to travel.

 

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Chronic fatigue findings were held back

American News

 

Friday 2nd July 2010

 

A key study on chronic fatigue syndrome was delayed from publication after officials from the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention (CDC) in Atlanta, Georgia, learned of a conflicting report published by other government agencies.

 

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CDC Team’s XMRV-Chronic Fatigue Syndrome Paper Is Out

American News

 

Thursday 1st July 2010

 

The paper is out! Or at least one of them is. Researchers, clinicians and patients in the chronic-fatigue syndrome community have been eagerly awaiting the release of two studies on the relationship between the XMRV virus and CFS, and the journal Retrovirology has just published one of them online.

 

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