Author Archives: wames
Advances in ME/CFS: past, present and future
Advances in ME/CFS: Past, Present and Future, by Kenneth J Friedman in Front. Pediatr., 18 April 2019 https://doi.org/10.3389/fped.2019.00131 Article abstract: The forerunner of what is today termed myalgic encephalomyelitis/chronic fatigue syndrome (ME/CFS) was described by the CDC in 1934. At … Continue reading
Cardiff woman with ME is fundraising for private brain photobiomodulation therapy
Fundraising for brain photobiomodulation therapy Jonathan Vaughan has despaired of getting help from his local health service, who are unwilling to even supply home visits in Cardiff for his seriously ill fiancée, and has set up a fund raising campaign … Continue reading
The ‘cognitive behavioural model’ of CFS: critique of a flawed model
The ‘Cognitive Behavioural Model’ of Chronic Fatigue Syndrome: critique of a flawed model, by Keith Geraghty, Leonard Jason, Madison Sunnquist, David Tuller, Charlotte Blease & Charles Adeniji in Journal of Health Psychology, April 23 2019 Review abstract: Chronic fatigue syndrome/myalgic … Continue reading
A nanoelectronics-blood-based diagnostic biomarker for ME/CFS
A nanoelectronics-blood-based diagnostic biomarker for myalgic encephalomyelitis/ chronic fatigue syndrome (ME/CFS), by R Esfandyarpour, A Kashi, M Nemat-Gorgani, J Wilhelmy, and R W Davis in PNAS April 2019 [https://doi.org/10.1073/pnas.1901274116] Significance: Myalgic encephalomyelitis/chronic fatigue syndrome (ME/CFS) is a disease which … Continue reading
ME Awareness Week, 6-12 May 2019- what can WE do?
WAMES in Awareness week From Saturday 6th to Friday 12th May – this year’s ME awareness week – WAMES will be continuing our efforts to raise awareness and inform doctors about ME, as part of our campaign to improve diagnosis … Continue reading
Duvet woman versus action man: the gendered aetiology of CFS according to English newspapers
Duvet woman versus action man: the gendered aetiology of Chronic Fatigue Syndrome according to English newspapers, by Rebecca Murray, Katy Day & Jane Tobbell in Feminist Media Studies [Published online: 15 Apr 2019 https://doi.org/10.1080/14680777.2019.1595694] Media portrayals of conditions such as … Continue reading
Endocrine immune regulation in… women with CFS
Leveraging prior knowledge of endocrine immune regulation in the therapeutically relevant phenotyping of women with Chronic Fatigue Syndrome, by Matthew C Morris, Katherine Cooney, Hooman Sedghamiz, Maria Abreu, Fanny Collado, Elizabeth G Balbin, Travis JA Craddock, Nancy G Klimas, Gordon … Continue reading
Cellular immune function in ME/CFS: increased MAIT cell frequency
Cellular immune function in myalgic encephalomyelitis/chronic fatigue syndrome (ME/CFS), by Jacqueline M Cliff, Elizabeth C King, Ji-Sook Lee, Nuno Sepulveda, Asia-Sofia Wolf, Caroline Kingdon, Erinna Bowman, Hazel M. Dockrell, Luis C. Nacul, Eliana Lacerda, Eleanor Riley in Front. Immunol., 16 April … Continue reading
Dr Nina Muirhead asks doctors to believe in ME
Royal College of Physicians blog, 10 April 2019: Do you really believe in ME? With many in the medical profession misunderstanding ME, Dr Nina Muirhead recounts her own experience with the illness and how it reshaped her understanding of it. Dr Nina … Continue reading
