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Study finds evidence of downregulated immune system in ME/CFS patients

December 7, 2015 No Comments

Researchers analysed 100 blood samples from the Solve ME/CFS Biobank of patients and results included finding 3 clusters. The cluster of Interleukin-16 (IL-16), IL-7 and VEGF-A was both significantly downregulated and tightly correlated with each other. IL-16 is a pro-inflammatory cytokine and the reduction shown may indicate immunodeficiency. IL-7 is indispensable for the creation and survival of immune cells (T cells, B cells, NK cells). VEGF-A: stimulates new blood vessel and muscle growth.

Announcing MEpedia: a knowledge base for ME science and history

December 6, 2015 40 Comments

What if we could take all of the information we have learned from all of those years of hundreds of people reading and writing about thousands of news and research articles across all of our forums and blogs and Facebook pages, and create one massive, interlinked, and structured knowledge base?

James Coyne to PLOS One: Don’t let PACE make a mockery of data sharing

December 6, 2015 2 Comments

Professor James Coyne yesterday posted online his letter to PLOS One complaining about the PACE authors’ failure to provide him with data from a paper published in the journal. Coyne’s letter was premature because he had been misinformed that he would receive a response within 20 days rather than 20 working days. However, it indicated

Study proposes new name, definition and biomarkers

December 5, 2015 18 Comments

Researchers from Australia’s Deakin University have proposed a new name for ME/CFS: Neuro-Inflammatory and Oxidative Fatigue. An Australian university is suggesting a new name to replace ME/CFS. They studied 196 subjects with Chronic Fatigue Syndrome (CDC criteria) and 83 with chronic fatigue and found two distinct groups.

We Succeeded in Removing NIH CBT and GET Advice

December 3, 2015 16 Comments

NIH has now removed its Medline/ National Library of Medicine (NLM) article promoting CBT and GET for ME/CFS treatment. It was taken down just DAYS after we began filing complaints. I received a response from NLM explaining that they “removed the article since it did not provide a balanced view on the topic.” Although the

Debunking the myth of the militant minority

December 3, 2015 1 Comment

In the British media, ME activists who have opposed cognitive behavioral therapy (CBT) and graded exercise therapy (GET) are often been portrayed as an unreasonable, militant “minority.” Members of the #MEAction Science and Treatment Policy and Media Working Groups have drafted this fact sheet to explain the real reasons why ME patients are opposed to CBT and

James Coyne declares “moral equivalent of war” on PACE

November 18, 2015 10 Comments

James Coyne gives a public talk on PACE Trial In a public talk in Edinburgh on Monday, psychologist Professor James Coyne declared the “moral equivalent of war” on the practices and assumptions that, he said, have allowed the “bad science” of the PACE trial to go unchallenged by scientists and the media. The authors of

Aust Senator questions government on lack of action on ME

November 16, 2015 2 Comments

Australia’s Senator Ludlam asks Department of Health what they do for people with ME.

Scientists demand independent analysis of PACE trial

November 13, 2015 1 Comment

Virology Blog today published an open letter from six leading scientists calling on The Lancet to seek an independent re-analysis of data from the controversial PACE trial. The Lancet published the first PACE trial paper in 2011, which examined psychological and exercise therapies aimed at getting chronic fatigue syndrome patients more active and was based

James Coyne tells PACE authors: Stop fighting data release

November 11, 2015 2 Comments

Professor James Coyne today publicly urged the PACE trial authors and Queen Mary University of London to stop fighting the release of raw data from the study. He used his popular blog in a powerful call to those responsible for withholding the information from the £5 million, taxpayer-funded trial to “let the People’s data go”.

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