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COVID-19 & post-infectious ME/CFS: a narrative review
COVID-19 and post-infectious myalgic encephalomyelitis/chronic fatigue syndrome: a narrative review, by Sonia Poenaru, Sara J Abdallah, Vicente Corrales-Medina, Juthaporn Cowan in Therapeutic Advances in Infectious Disease. Jan 2021 [doi:10.1177/20499361211009385] Bottom line Many post-acute COVID-19 symptoms resemble post-infectious ME/CFS Acute … Continue reading
Introducing WAMES volunteers: Simon Horsman
Introducing WAMES volunteers: the treasurer Early a nomad, by adoption, I’m a Brummie. My school song included the worthy thought “Die of service, not of rust.” Wales is not the land of my fathers but it is the land … Continue reading
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
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
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
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
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
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
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
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
