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Cardiac dimensions & function are not altered among females with the ME/CFS
Cardiac dimensions and function are not altered among females with the Myalgic Encephalomyelitis/Chronic Fatigue Syndrome, by Per Ole Iversen, Thomas Gero von Lueder, Kristin Reimers Kardel and Katarina Lien in Healthcare 2020, 8(4), 406 [doi.org/10.3390/healthcare8040406] Research abstract: Background: Myalgic … Continue reading
Long covid & ME/CFS: doctors must assess, investigate & diagnose patients properly
BMJ: Long covid: doctors must assess and investigate patients properly, by Dr Nina Muirhead, 9 December 2020 Dr Nina Muirhead, a dermatology surgeon in Buckinghamshire & lecturer at Cardiff Medical School responds to an article in the British Medical Journal. … Continue reading
ME/CFS symptoms – videos of patients’ experiences
Dialogues for ME/CFS videos – Symptoms The latest videos in the ‘Dialogues for a neglected illness’ series gives patients’ accounts of a variety of key symptoms experienced in ME/CFS. Reduced Function – 20 mins How does the disease … Continue reading
Christmas shop online with Easy Fundraising – raise funds for WAMES
Christmas shop online & fundraise at the same time! Register with easyfundraising.org.uk in 3 easy steps and raise money to keep WAMES campaigning at no cost to yourself. Every time you want to shop, go to easyfundraising.org.uk and select … Continue reading
Impact of long-term cryopreservation on blood immune cell markers in ME/CFS: implications for biomarker discovery
Impact of long-term cryopreservation on blood immune cell markers in Myalgic Encephalomyelitis/Chronic Fatigue Syndrome: implications for biomarker discovery, by Elisabet Gómez-Mora, Jorge Carrillo, Víctor Urrea, Josepa Rigau, José Alegre, Cecilia Cabrera, Elisa Oltra, Jesús Castro-Marrero and Julià Blanco in Front. … Continue reading
High prevalence of perineural cysts in patients with FM & CFS
High prevalence of perineural cysts in patients with fibromyalgia and Chronic Fatigue Syndrome, by Mieke Hulens, Frans Bruyninckx, Wim Dankaerts, Ricky Rasschaert, Peter De Mulder, Ingeborg Stalmans, Greet Vansant, Chris Bervoets in Pain Medicine, 1 Dec 2020 pnaa410 [doi.org/10.1093/pm/pnaa410] … Continue reading
Role of mitochondria, oxidative stress & the response to antioxidants ME/CFS: a possible approach to SARS-CoV-2 ‘long-haulers’?
Role of mitochondria, oxidative stress and the response to antioxidants in myalgic encephalomyelitis/chronic fatigue syndrome: a possible approach to SARS-CoV-2 ‘long-haulers’?, by , Warren Tate in Chronic Dis Transl Med. 2020 Nov 21 [doi: 10.1016/j.cdtm.2020.11.002] Review article abstract: A … Continue reading
Systematic review of Primary Outcome Measurements for CFS/ME in randomized controlled trials
Systematic review of primary Outcome Measurements for Chronic Fatigue Syndrome/ Myalgic Encephalomyelitis (CFS/ME) in randomized controlled trials, by Do-Young Kim, Jin-Seok Lee and Chang-Gue Son in J. Clin. Med. 2020, 9(11) 3463 [doi.org/10.3390/jcm9113463] (This article belongs to the Special Issue Chronic … Continue reading
Paradigm shift to disequilibrium in the genesis of orthostatic intolerance
Paradigme shift to disequilibrium in the genesis of orthostatic intolerance in patients with CFS, by K Miwa in European Heart Journal Vol 40, Supp 1, Oct 2019 Research abstract Background Chronic fatigue syndrome (CFS) characterized by severe disabling fatigue and … Continue reading
Bias caused by reliance on patient-reported outcome measures in non-blinded randomized trials
Bias caused by reliance on patient-reported outcome measures in non-blinded randomized trials: an in-depth look at exercise therapy for chronic fatigue syndrome by Michiel Tack, David M Tuller & Caroline Struthers in Fatigue: Biomedicine, Health & Behavior Vol 8, 2020 … Continue reading