Category Archives: News
WAMES helpline holiday hours 2019-2020
WAMES helpline hours The WAMES helpline is run by volunteers and will be closed over the festive period. We apologise that due to extra pressures on the team in January, the closure will last longer than usual. Feel free … Continue reading
Minireview for CFS & its medical attention recently
Minireview for Chronic Fatigue Syndrome and its medical attention recently, by Chang-Gue Son in J Korean Med. 2019;40(4):84-90 [http://dx.doi.org/10.13048/jkm.19043] Review abstract: Objectives: Chronic fatigue syndrome (CFS) is a debilitating illness impairing seriously quality of life, while CFS would be … Continue reading
Transient receptor potential melastatin 2 channels are overexpressed in ME/CFS patients
Transient receptor potential melastatin 2 channels are overexpressed in myalgic encephalomyelitis/chronic fatigue syndrome patients, by Cassandra Balinas, Helene Cabanas, Donald Staines, Sonya Marshall-Gradisnik in Journal of Translational Medicine Vol 17, #1, p 401, December 3, 2019 Research abstract: Background: Myalgic … Continue reading
Paediatric CFS patients’ & parents’ perceptions of recovery
Paediatric chronic fatigue syndrome patients’ and parents’ perceptions of recovery, by Matthew Robert Harland, Roxanne Morin Parslow, Nina Anderson, Danielle Byrne, Esther Crawley in BMJ Paediatrics Open Vol 3, #1, Dec 2, 2019 Research abstract: What is known about the … Continue reading
Elevated blood lactate in resting conditions correlate with post-exertional malaise severity in patients with ME/CFS
Elevated blood lactate in resting conditions correlate with post-exertional malaise severity in patients with Myalgic encephalomyelitis/Chronic fatigue syndrome by Alaa Ghali, Carole Lacout, Maria Ghali, Aline Gury, Anne-Berengere Beucher, Pierre Lozac’h, Christian Lavigne & Geoffrey Urbanski (France) in Nature Scientific … Continue reading
ME/CFS patients exhibit altered T cell metabolism & cytokine associations
Myalgic encephalomyelitis/chronic fatigue syndrome patients exhibit altered T cell metabolism and cytokine associations, by Alexandra H Mandarano, Jessica Maya, Ludovic Giloteaux, Daniel L Peterson, Marco Maynard, C Gunnar Gottschalk, and Maureen R Hanson in J Clin Invest. 2019. [First published … Continue reading
Investigating the role of tgf-b & fatigue in CFS
Investigating the role of tgf-b and fatigue in chronic fatigue syndrome, by Beth Dibnah, Emmanuella Traianos, Jessica Tarn, Dennis Lendrem, Wan Fai Ng in Annals of the Rheumatic Diseases Volume 78, Issue Suppl 2:1495 2019 [http://dx.doi.org/10.1136/annrheumdis-2019-eular.4690] Research abstract: Background: … Continue reading
Intimate partner violence & the risk of developing FM & CFS
Intimate partner violence and the risk of developing Fibromyalgia and Chronic Fatigue Syndrome, by Joht Singh Chandan, Tom Thomas, Karim Raza, Caroline Bradbury-Jones, Julie Taylor, Siddhartha Bandyopadhyay, Krishnarajah Nirantharakumar in Journal of Interpersonal Violence, December 6, 2019 [https://doi.org/10.1177/0886260519888515] Research abstract: Intimate … Continue reading
Circulating levels of GDF15 in patients with ME/CFS
Circulating levels of GDF15 in patients with myalgic encephalomyelitis/chronic fatigue syndrome, by A Melvin, E Lacerda, H M Dockrell, S O’Rahilly & L Nacul in Journal of Translational Medicine vol 17, no. 409 (2019) Research abstract: Background: Myalgic encephalomyelitis/chronic fatigue syndrome (ME/CFS) is a … Continue reading
