Tag Archives: research
OMF StudyME – register of willing research participants
StudyME – research participant registry The Open Medicine Foundation (OMF) in the US invites you to help speed up the research process! StudyME is a participant registry which will connect those who want to participate in research studies (wherever you … Continue reading
Systematic review of randomized controlled trials for CFS/ME
Systematic review of randomized controlled trials for chronic fatigue syndrome/ myalgic encephalomyelitis (CFS/ME), by Do-Young Kim, Jin-Seok Lee, Samuel-Young Park, Soo-Jin Kim & Chang-Gue Son in Journal of Translational Medicine vol 18, no. 7 (2020) Research abstract: Background: Although … Continue reading
Understanding ME & CFS symptoms in children – take part in research project!
Symptomatology of pediatric ME & CFS – research project The Center for Community Research at DePaul University in the USA, led by Prof Leonard Jason says: There is currently little research on children with myalgic encephalomyelitis (ME) and chronic fatigue … Continue reading
Families sought for trial of classroom robot as avatar for child with ME
Invest in ME Research newsletter, November 2017: Removing isolation from young people with ME IiMER invites families that: have a child who has been forced to stay at home due to ME, and who would like to participate in a trial … Continue reading
Depression-like symptoms in ME research – invitation to participate
Prof Leonard Jason writes on Facebook, 14 October 2016: Our recent paper “Mortality in patients with ME and CFS” found patients are significantly at risk for earlier all-cause mortality with the top three causes of death being suicide, cardiovascular problems, and … Continue reading
A tool for making sense of health studies
Understanding Health Research: a tool for making sense of health studies Can I trust the findings of health research? This online tool aims to guide you through a series of questions to help you review health research. The website also contains introductions to … Continue reading
Doing research in ME/CFS with ME/CFS
Article introduction: My name is Dr. Keith Geraghty, I am an Honorary Research Fellow at the University of Manchester in the Centre for Primary Care. My main research interests are patient safety and harms, doctor-patient relations, medically unexplained illness and ME/CFS … Continue reading
MEGA: new UK research alliance announces ‘big data’ study
MEGA: ME/CFS Epidemiology and Genomics Alliance: On the 13th and 14th of April 2016, experts from multiple fields came together for a ‘grand challenge’ workshop to discuss how to advance research in understanding CFS/ME. It was agreed that: Very large … Continue reading
US NIH plans in-depth ME/CFS study
Simon McGrath reports on: the most in-depth, comprehensive and innovative ME/CFS studies ever proposed: it’s the first fruit of Director Dr Francis Collins’s ‘new start’ for ME/CFS at the US National Institutes of Health (NIH). Dr Nath, who is Chief … Continue reading
Healthwise Wales study
HealthWise Wales is a Welsh Government initiative to involve everyone in Wales in improving the health and wellbeing of the population, by taking part in research. They are asking you to: Help them to work out the most important questions on … Continue reading
