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Swedish psychiatrist on how he came to view M.E. as a physical disorder

November 9, 2015 6 Comments

Prof. Carl-Gerhard Gottfries is a professor of psychiatry. In this video, he explains how he and his colleagues first approached the treatment of patients with fibromyalgia and ME from a psychiatric perspective, and later came to view these illnesses as “multi-organic disorders” involving the immune system. Gottfries became interested in ME in 1957, when a pandemic

Save the Gottfries Clinic

November 9, 2015 No Comments

The Gottfries clinic is the leading ME/CFS and fibromyalgia clinic in Sweden. It both treats patients and conducts biomedical research, yet the health authorities there are planning to withdraw their support in favor for a “bio-psycho-social” approach to treatment. Politicians in Gothenburg, Sweden have now decided not to renew the contract with the clinic when

Misleading PACE claims should be retracted

October 28, 2015 No Comments

Given the weak and flawed methodologies of the PACE trial, which claims that CBT and GET led to the recovery of ME/CFS patients, we, the undersigned patients, doctors, scientists, parents, children, family, friends, caretakers and #MEAllies: – call upon The Lancet to retract the claim made in its February 2011 editorial [1] that 30% of

PACE Trial Controversy Grows

October 28, 2015 15 Comments

In wake of David Tuller’s investigation, PACE investigators publish follow up study Last week, journalist David Tuller published a four-part investigative piece on the 2011 PACE trial, a £5 million (US$8 million) non-blind study of cognitive behavioral therapy (CBT) and graded exercise (GET) as treatment for chronic fatigue syndrome. In his piece, Tuller quotes top

Muscle defect studied in UK

October 18, 2015 1 Comment

Patients in the UK’s north east will benefit from muscle abnormality research put into action via hospitals.

Visionary viral disease treatment needs funding

October 15, 2015 9 Comments

Imagine a drug that could treat almost any viral disease. We may only be a few years’ away, thanks to Dr Rider at MIT.

Neurology Now writes about CFS

October 12, 2015 1 Comment

Neurology Now on CFS Neurology Now recently posted an article targeted at neurologists with the headline “Beyond Tired: Is chronic fatigue syndrome a real medical condition? Yes, according to a report from the Institute of Medicine, which urges physicians to treat it accordingly.” The piece is primarily focused on the IOM report and its suggested

Study shows immune differences in moderate and severe CFS/ME

September 17, 2015 11 Comments

New Australian study shows immune difference in moderate and severe patients. It may lead to a test based on these markers.

Australian research into ME/CFS in adolescents

August 19, 2015 No Comments

Research into neurological biomarkers in paediatric ME/CFS begins in Australia

Couple battles ME and HIV

August 19, 2015 7 Comments

The moving story of Franky, an ME patient and Randy, his HIV positive caretaker and partner. Every once in a while there along comes a story that leaves even me teary-eyed. Waking up this afternoon after my siesta, I opened my email to discover this true gem from the Huffington Post Blog of Dr Franky Dolan. I