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Ross River virus immune evasion strategies & the relevance to Post-Viral Fatigue & ME onset

Ross River virus immune evasion strategies and the relevance to Post-Viral Fatigue, and Myalgic Encephalomyelitis onset, by Brett A Lidbury in Front. Med.  Vol 8, 2021 pp 298 [doi: 10.3389/fmed.2021.662513]   Article abstract: Ross River virus (RRV) is an endemic … Continue reading

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Hand grip strength & fatigability: correlation with clinical parameters & diagnostic suitability in ME/CFS

Hand grip strength and fatigability: correlation with clinical parameters and diagnostic suitability in ME/CFS, by Bianka Jäkel, Claudia Kedor, Patricia Grabowski, Kirsten Wittke, Silvia Thiel, Nadja Scherbakov, Wolfram Doehner, Carmen Scheibenbogen & Helma Freitag in Journal of Translational Medicine vol 19, … Continue reading

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Re-analysis of genetic risks for CFS from 23andMe data finds few remain

Re-analysis of genetic risks for Chronic Fatigue Syndrome from 23andMe data finds few remain, by Felice L Bedford, Bastian Greshake Tzovaras in medRxiv 2020.10.27.20220939  [doi.org/10.1101/2020.10.27.20220939] Data from 23andMe had been compared with a control database that was found to contain … Continue reading

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How peptic ulcer disease could potentially lead to the lifelong, debilitating effects of CFS

How peptic ulcer disease could potentially lead to the lifelong, debilitating effects of chronic fatigue syndrome: an insight, by Chien-Feng Kuo, Leiyu Shi, Cheng-Li Lin, Wei-Cheng Yao, Hsiang-Ting Chen, Chon-Fu Lio, Yu-Ting Tina Wang, Ching-Huang Su, Nai-Wei Hsu & Shin-Yi Tsai … Continue reading

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Introducing WAMES volunteers: Sharon Williams

The second in a series introducing WAMES volunteers: the Volunteer Coordinator    Hi! My name is Sharon Williams. I have been involved with WAMES for many years, initially helping to raise awareness and fundraising, but now as Volunteer Coordinator and … Continue reading

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US ME/CFS clinician coalition recommendations for ME/CFS testing & treatment

US ME/CFS Clinician Coalition Recommendations for ME/CFS Testing and Treatment, April 13, 2021   In its July 2020 handout on ME/CFS diagnosis and treatment, the US ME/CFS Clinician Coalition summarized the alternative diagnoses and comorbidities that need to be evaluated … Continue reading

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Hughes & Tuller challenge study into CBT in a UK specialist CFS clinic

Response to Adamson et al. (2020): ‘Cognitive behavioural therapy for chronic fatigue and chronic fatigue syndrome: Outcomes from a specialist clinic in the UK’, by Brian M Hughes and David Tuller in Journal of Health Psychology April 10, 2021 [doi.org/10.1177/13591053211008203] … Continue reading

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Life-threatening malnutrition in very severe ME/CFS

Life-threatening malnutrition in very severe ME/CFS, by Helen Baxter, Nigel Speight and William Weir in Healthcare 2021, 9(4),  459; [doi.org/10.3390/healthcare9040459] 14 April 2021 (This article belongs to the Special Issue ME/CFS – the Severely and Very Severely Affected)   Case Reports … Continue reading

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Introducing WAMES volunteers: Jan Russell

Introducing WAMES volunteers: Jan Russell   The first in a series introducing WAMES volunteers: the Chair   Back in 2000 I was one of a small band of support group reps who got together to discuss what we could do to … Continue reading

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Insights into metabolite diagnostic biomarkers for ME/CFS

Insights into metabolite diagnostic biomarkers for Myalgic Encephalomyelitis/ Chronic Fatigue Syndrome, by Emi Yamano, Yasuyoshi Watanabe and Yosky Kataoka in Int. J. Mol. Sci. 2021, 22(7), 3423; [doi.org/10.3390/ijms22073423] 26 March 2021 (This article belongs to the Special Issue Environmental Sensitivity Illnesses: … Continue reading

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