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Help Advance ME/CFS and Fibromyalgia Research!

This is a really big opportunity for each of us to play an important role in funding more research for ME/CFS (chronic fatigue syndrome) and fibromyalgia – and it won't cost us a penny.  But we have to act quickly because the door of opportunity closes Wednesday.  Chase Community Giving (funded by JP Morgan Chase) was introduced in... Read moreChevron
posted 05/24/2011, comments (0)|
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PACE Trial Results Misleading: Part II – Flaws in the Study

In “PACE Trial Results Misleading: Part I – Background,” I discussed the media coverage of the study's results and the disturbing history behind the UK's PACE trial.  Now we'll take a look at some of the specific problems with the study itself.  In all the years I've been reading research reports, I don't think I have... Read moreChevron
posted 04/30/2011, comment (1)|
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PACE Trial Results Misleading: Part I – Background

In mid-February, the UK's Medical Research Council, with great fanfare, issued a press release announcing, “UK’s largest CFS/ME trial confirms safe and effective treatments for patients.”  The two treatments they claimed were so effective are Cognitive Behavioral Therapy and Graded Exercise Therapy.  Most of the... Read moreChevron
posted 04/30/2011, comment (1)|
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Off-Label Prescribing Enhanced by Patient-Reported Outcomes

I recently came across a rather unusual, but quite interesting study that looked at the PatientsLikeMe Web site and analyzed how the information reported by patients on the site could be a useful tool for both doctors and their patients when it comes to prescribing medications off-label.  Identifying the ProblemAlthough off-label prescribing... Read moreChevron
posted 02/28/2011, comments (0)|
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Karen Lee Richards

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Spinal Fluid Test Distinguishes Lyme Disease from Chronic Fatigue Syndrome

Unique proteins discovered in spinal fluid can distinguish neurologic post-treatment Lyme disease (nPTLS) and myalgic encephalomyelitis / chronic fatigue syndrome (ME/CFS) from one another and also from people in normal health, according to a study published last week in the journal PloS ONE.  There are many similarities between nPTLS... Read moreChevron
posted 02/27/2011, comment (1)|
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