Monthly Archives: July 2011
Impaired cardiac function in CFS
Researchers from Newcastle University using magnetic resonance cardiac tagging have found that the hearts of people with CFS do not work as well as healthy people. Research conclusion: patients have markedly reduced cardiac mass and blood pool volumes, particularly end … Continue reading
Attention and memory problems in children with CFS/ME
A team from Bath University’s CFS Clinic for children have published an assesment of attention and memory problems in children with CFS/ME. Abstract: Our recent research has shown that children with chronic fatigue syndrome/myalgic encephalomyopathy (CFS/ME) describe problems with focused … Continue reading
Radio Wales asks: Is ME physical or psychological?
This morning on Radio 4’s Today programme Dr Simon Wessely claimed that he had received a series of death threats and threatening phone calls because of his views on ME, and now has his mail routinely scanned for suspect devices. … Continue reading
What are your symptoms?
Can you help WAMES to explain to service commissioners and doctors what it’s like to have ME? All Health Boards in Wales have begun to develop services and WAMES is talking to the people responsible. One of the things we … Continue reading
Dr Sarah Myhill – all sanctions dropped!
Dr Myhill attended a review hearing in front of the Interim Orders Panel of the general Medical Council on Tuesday 26th July 2011. The Panel decided that the interim order, imposed on her registration at the first IOP hearing in … Continue reading
Essex inpatient CFS service to close
The National CFS Diagnostic and rehabilitation service in Queen’s Hospital, Romford, Essex is to close. This inpatient facility based in the Essex Neurosciences Unit accepted patients from all over the UK, including Wales, and was the only service of its … Continue reading
Restless leg syndrome genes discovered
A multi-national team of scientists have discovered two faulty genes that causes restless leg syndrome (RLS), a condition that affects 5 million in the UK, including many people with ME. It is hoped that this discovery will eventually lead to … Continue reading
New CFS guidelines for GPs
Innovait, the journal for Associates in Training (AiTs) of the Royal College of General Practitioners has published an article on Chronic Fatigue Syndrome emphasising the role of GPs in making an early diagnosis and giving management advice for CFS It … Continue reading
Too few jobs in Wales for the ill and disabled
An estimated 60,000 people in Wales who will lose rights to disability benefits after an overhaul of the benefit system will struggle to find suitable employment according to new research. The Sheffield Hallam University report, Tackling worklessness in Wales, has … Continue reading
2 more studies fail to find XMRV
An American study published in Science on 1st July found no evidence of XMRV or other MLVs in the blood samples of CFS people with an XMRV diagnosis. What they did find suggested that establishment of a successful MLV infection … Continue reading
