Category Archives: News
Medicinal cannabis and ME
Sittingbourne-based Netflix documentary producer Jason Reed speaks out: online article at Kent online, 24 March 2015 Jason Reed, who suffers from M.E. has spoken extensively on the uses of medicinal cannabis. “To feel the literal definition of exhaustion, to have … Continue reading
Cognitive dysfunction in adolescents with chronic fatigue
Research abstract: OBJECTIVE: To compare cognitive function in adolescents with chronic fatigue with cognitive function in healthy controls (HC). STUDY DESIGN: Cross-sectional study. SETTING: Paediatric department at Oslo University Hospital, Norway. PARTICIPANTS: 120 adolescents with chronic fatigue (average age 15.4 … Continue reading
CFS subgroup found to have low level inflammation
CFS is characterized by profound levels of persistent/recurrent fatigue. It is proposed that chronic, low level inflammation may play a role in this fatigue. We recruited 100 untreated patients with CFS (average age 33±12) and 100 age and sex matched … Continue reading
A review of grey matter volume research in CFS
Review article abstract: Chronic fatigue syndrome (CFS) is a debilitating and complex disorder characterized by profound fatigue with uncertain pathologic mechanism. Neuroimage may be an important key to unveil the central nervous system (CNS) mechanism in CFS. Although most of … Continue reading
Assessing fatigue in children
Research abstract BACKGROUND AND OBJECTIVE: Fatigue is common in chronic health conditions in childhood, associated with decreased quality of life and functioning, yet there are limited data to compare assessment instruments across conditions and childhood development. Our objective was to … Continue reading
Personality disorders in CFS
Comorbid personality disorders in Chronic Fatigue Syndrome patients: a marker of psychopathological severity, by Calvo N, Saez-Francas N, Valero S, Alegre J, Casas M. Actas Esp Psiquiatr. 2015 Mar;43(2):58-65.
Police recruiters told that CFS is psychological condition
Dr Shepherd of the ME Association wrote to the Home Office in March to challenge the advice to Chief Police Officers that, when assessing recruits for the service, they should regard Chronic Fatigue Syndrome as akin to somatoform, factitious and … Continue reading
Fluge & Mella’s patent application for a CFS treatment
Excerpt from patent application: Inventors: Øystein Fluge & Olav Mella Date of publication 26 11 2014 Nitric oxide donor for the treatment of chronic fatigue syndrome. Description [0001] The present invention relates in a first aspect to a nitric oxide donor for … Continue reading
Comparison of consensus & empirical ME/CFS definitions & criteria
Research abstract: Background: Since the publication of the CFS case definition [Fukuda K, Straus SE, Hickie I, Sharpe MC, Dobbins JG, Komaroff A. The chronic fatigue syndrome: a comprehensive approach to its definition and study. Ann Intern Med. 1994;121:953-959], there … Continue reading
