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Myalgic Encephalomyelitis (ME) or what? An operational definition
Myalgic Encephalomyelitis (ME) or what? An operational definition, by Frank Twisk in Diagnostics 2018, 8(3), 64 [Published: 8 September 2018] Article abstract: Myalgic encephalomyelitis (ME), identified as a new clinical entity with distinctive features in 1956, was originally considered as a neuromuscular … Continue reading
Cardiopulmonary exercise test methodology for assessing exertion intolerance in ME/CFS
Cardiopulmonary Exercise Test Methodology for Assessing Exertion Intolerance in ME/CFS by Staci Stevens, Chris Snell, Jared Stevens, Betsy Keller and J Mark VanNess in Frontiers in Pediatrics, 4 September 2018 Background: Concise methodological directions for administration of serial cardiopulmonary exercise testing (CPET) … Continue reading
Responses in BMJ to Prof Sharpe on PACE trial
Pressure grows on Lancet to review “flawed” PACE trial On 22 August Ingrid Torjesen wrote a news item in the British Medical Journal about an article in the Times which highlighted the call to review the results of the PACE trial into … Continue reading
Trial By Error: Professor Edwards’ letter to MRC’s Fiona Watt
Virology blog post, by David Tuller, DrPH, 28 August 2018: Trial By Error: Professor Edwards’ Letter to MRC’s Fiona Watt Jonathan Edwards, an emeritus professor of medicine at University College London, recently sent a letter to Professor Fiona Watt, executive … Continue reading
AfME apologises for its role in the PACE trial & clarifies its change of position
Action for M.E. statement on: The PACE trial and behavioural treatments for M.E. On 29th August 2018 Action for ME published a statement explaining the charity’s role in the PACE trial and apologising for their role in contributing to the … Continue reading
Loss of transient receptor potential Melastatin 3 ion channel function in natural killer cells from CFS/ME
Loss of Transient Receptor Potential Melastatin 3 ion channel function in natural killer cells from CFS/ME patients by Hélène Cabanas, Katsuhiko Muraki, Natalie Eaton, Cassandra Balinas, Donald Staines and Sonya Marshall-Gradisnik in Molecular Medicine 2018 24:44 [Published: 14 August 2018] Research abstract: … Continue reading
A new approach to find biomarkers in CFS/ME by single-cell Raman micro-spectroscopy
A new approach to find biomarkers in chronic fatigue syndrome/myalgic encephalomyelitis (CFS/ME) by single-cell Raman micro-spectroscopy, by Jiabao Xu, Michelle Potter, Cara Tomas, Jo Elson, Karl Morten, Joanna Poulton, Ning Wang, Hanqing Jin, Zhaoxu Hou and Wei Huang in Analyst 2018 [published 22Aug 2018] Research abstract: Chronic fatigue syndrome … Continue reading
The biopolitics of CFS/ME
The biopolitics of CFS/ME, by Nikos Karfakis, in Studies in History and Philosophy of Science Part C: Studies in History and Philosophy of Biological and Biomedical Sciences [Available online 8 June 2018] Highlights: The diagnosis of CFS/ME is not only … Continue reading
The expression signature of very long non-coding RNA in ME/CFS
The expression signature of very long non-coding RNA in myalgic encephalomyelitis/ chronic fatigue syndrome, by Chin-An Yang, Sandra Bauer, Yu-Chen Ho, Franziska Sotzny, Jan-Gowth Chang, Carmen Scheibenbogen in Journal of Translational Medicine 2018 16:231 [Published: 17 August 2018] Research abstract: Background: Myalgic encephalomyelitis/chronic fatigue syndrome (ME/CFS) is … Continue reading
