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Holiday greetings to all from WAMES
WAMES helpline holiday hours
The WAMES helpline is run by volunteers and will be closed over the festive period helpline@wames.org.uk 0290 2051 5061. 22 December – 2 January closed 3 January onwards 10-7pm For emotional support, the Samaritans can be contacted 24 hours a day, 7 … Continue reading
Kings’s College finds overactive immune system in ME/CFS
Kings College London news post: Clues to CFS in overactive immune response New research from King’s College London finds that an exaggerated immune response can trigger long-lasting fatigue, potentially explaining how chronic fatigue syndrome (CFS) begins. The study is the most … Continue reading
Adolescent’s descriptions of fatigue, fluctuation and payback in CFS/ME
Adolescent’s descriptions of fatigue, fluctuation and payback in chronic fatigue syndrome/myalgic encephalopathy (CFS/ME): Interviews with adolescents and parents, by Roxanne M Parslow, Nina Anderson, Danielle Byrne, Alison Shaw, Kirstie L Haywood, Esther Crawley in BMJ Paediatrics Open Vol 2, #1, December 4, 2018 What this study hopes … Continue reading
Glial activation & expression of the serotonin transporter in CFS
Glial activation and expression of the serotonin transporter in Chronic Fatigue Syndrome, by Mami Noda, Masataka Ifuku, Md. Shamim Hossain and Toshihiko Katafuchi in Front. Psychiatry, 16 November 2018 Mini Review article abstract: Fatigue is commonly reported in a variety of illnesses … Continue reading
IAFME sends an ‘agenda for change’ for ME to the WHO
IAFME contacts the WHO about ME The International Alliance for Myalgic Encephalomyelitis (IAFME) has produced a trans-national consensus document covering Myalgic Encephalomyelitis (M.E.). Recognition, research and respect: An agenda for change in M.E. has the support of over 60 clinicians, researchers, … Continue reading
ME/CFS in the era of the human microbiome
Myalgic Encephalomyelitis/Chronic Fatigue Syndrome in the era of the human microbiome: persistent pathogens drive chronic symptoms by interfering with host metabolism, gene expression and immunity, by Amy D Proal and Trevor Marshall in Front. Pediatr. 4 Dec 2018 The illness ME/CFS has … Continue reading
The UK ME/CFS Biobank
The UK ME/CFS Biobank: A disease-specific biobank for advancing clinical research into myalgic encephalomyelitis/ chronic fatigue syndrome, by Eliana M. Lacerda, Kathleen Mudie, Caroline C. Kingdon, Jack D. Butterworth, Shennae O’Boyle, Luis Nacul in Frontiers in Neurology, 14 Nov 2018 [preprint Abstract: Myalgic encephalomyelitis/chronic … Continue reading
Brain abnormalities in ME/CFS
Brain abnormalities in myalgic encephalomyelitis/chronic fatigue syndrome: Evaluation by diffusional kurtosis imaging and neurite orientation dispersion and density imaging, by Kimura Y, Sato N, Ota M, Shigemoto Y, Morimoto E, Enokizono M, Matsuda H, Shin I, Amano K, Ono H, Sato W, Yamamura T in Journal … Continue reading
miRNA profiling of circulating EVs in ME/CFS
miRNA profiling of circulating EVs in Myalgic Encephalomyelitis/ Chronic Fatigue Syndrome (ME/CFS) by Eloy Almenar-Pérez, Lubov Nathanson, Teresa Sánchez-Fito, Leonor Sarria, Germán Cerdá-Olmedo, Elisa Oltra in Journal of Extracellular Vesicles, suppl. Supplement 1; Abingdon Vol. 7, (2018): 139. Research abstract: Background: … Continue reading
