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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

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A dozen different diseases? Prof Stephen Holgate calls for radical change in ME/CFS research

ME/CFS probably isn’t one disease, or even a few different ones – but could be as many as fifteen. So said Professor Stephen Holgate, Chair of the UK Research Collaborative (CMRC), when he addressed the Forward ME Group in the … Continue reading

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Biological breakthrough reported

The TIMES newspaper reported on the launch of the UK CFS/ME Research Collaborative (UK CMRC) on 23 April 2013: Scientists have found compelling new evidence of an underlying biological cause for the constant fatigue suffered by ME patients. The study … Continue reading

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