Category Archives: News
Dry eye disease in patients with chronic pain
Research abstract: PURPOSE: To investigate clinical characteristics of dry eye disease (DED) patients with a chronic pain syndrome. DESIGN: Cross-sectional study METHODS: 425 patients of a tertiary care DED patient cohort in the Netherlands were included. Chronic pain syndromes, irritable … Continue reading
The brain’s frontal cortex works inefficiently in children with CFS
Research abstract: The ability to divide one’s attention deteriorates in patients with childhood chronic fatigue syndrome (CCFS). We conducted a study using a dual verbal task to assess allocation of attentional resources to two simultaneous activities (picking out vowels and … Continue reading
The chokehold behavioural treatments have on ME/CFS
American health blogger Cort Johnson looks at which ME/CFS treatment studies have been published since the start of 2013. He highlights that there has been a lack of drug studies and that most of the these studies were small. Extracts: “With … Continue reading
To future GPs – psychosomatic should not be the default suspicion re ME/CFS
Time to swot up on chronic fatigue – Future general practitioners need to be made aware that “psychosomatic” should not be the default suspicion, by Michael Brooks in the New Statesman, Nov 12 2015 Around 250,000 people in the UK suffer from … Continue reading
Cancer doctor Dagfinn Øgreid has treated ME patients with rituximab
Blog article: Offers private ME treatment with cancer drugs – scientists react, by Anne Grete Storvik, Nov 23 2015 in Dagensmedicin [ translated by Google translate] A private clinic in Sandnes offers treatment for ME with the cancer drug rituximab. Patients pay … Continue reading
250 donations to ‘Solve ME/CFS’ needed by 1 Dec 2015
Giving Tuesday: Help Solve ME/CFS initiative to meet their challenge and receive $50,000 by making a Giving Tuesday donation. An anonymous donor has put up a $50,000 challenge donation that they will receive, if they get 250 gifts of any amount by Tuesday 1 … Continue reading
Norwegian professors question GET & CBT as interventions for ME
Article extracts: The assessment and treatment of patients with myalgic encephalomyelitis and chronic fatigue syndrome/myalgic encephalomyelitis in Norway is, according to a SINTEF study from 2011 highly inadequate: There is a lack of expertise within the social, welfare and healthcare … Continue reading
Invitation to take part in a large gene study of ME/CFS
Are you currently diagnosed with ME/CFS (SEID)? Are you interested in your genetic makeup? If so, help the INIM create a one of a kind genetic database for patients with ME/CFS. Participation for this study requires you to have a … Continue reading
Borderline intracranial hypertension manifesting as CFS
Research abstract: Chronic fatigue syndrome and cases of idiopathic intracranial hypertension without signs of raised intracranial pressure can be impossible to distinguish without direct measurement of intracranial pressure. Moreover, lumbar puncture, the usual method of measuring intracranial pressure, can produce a similar respite … Continue reading
Management of chronic pain in children
Review abstract: Chronic pain in children and adolescents can be difficult for a single provider to manage in a busy clinical setting. Part of this difficulty is that pediatric chronic pain not only impacts the child but also the families … Continue reading
