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Australia
| Chronic Fatigue Syndrome | SBS | October 2018 | |
| How much do you know about Chronic Fatigue Syndrome?” | ABC | May 2018 | |
| What causes chronic fatigue? What we know, don’t know and suspect | The Conversation | May 2018 |
United Kingdom
| The Independent | Nathalie Wright | January 2018 | |
| Call for review of ‘flawed’ ME research in Lancet letter | The Times | Tom Whipple | August 2018 |
United States
The NIH is thwarting research on a poorly understood yet serious condition | Stat News | Jennie Spotila | Jan 2019 |
| Medscape | Miriam E Tucker | April 2019 | |
| CNN | Ryan Prior | May 2019 | |
| A reboot for chronic fatigue syndrome research | Nature Journal | Amy Maxmen | January 2018 |
| Why did it take the CDC so long to reverse course on debunked treatments for chronic fatigue syndrome? | Stat News | Julie Rehmeyer and David Tuller | September 2017 |
| Is chronic fatigue syndrome finally being taken seriously? | The Guardian | David Cox | April 2016 |
| A Controversial Therapy For ME Has Led To Claims Of Death Threats, Harassment, And Pseudoscience | Buzz Feed | Tom Chivers | August 2018 |
- “New Recognition for Chronic Fatigue,” New York Times, Nov., 2017
- “People With Chronic Fatigue Syndrome Are Exhausted at a Cellular Level, Study Shows,” Science Alert, Nov. 2017
- “For People With Chronic Fatigue Syndrome, More Exercise Isn’t Better,” National Public Radio, WBUR, Oct. 2017
- “Stanford: Scientist searches for answer to his son’s devastating condition,” The Mercury News, Aug. 12, 2017
- “Scientists Edge Closer to Elusive Lab Test for CFS,” NPR, July 31 2017
- “More clues link immune system imbalance with CFS,” Science AAAS, July 31 2017
- “Health Study sheds light on Chronic Fatigue Syndrome,” ABC News, Aug. 1 2017
- “CFS: biomarkers linked to severity identified,” Science Daily, Aug. 1 2017
- “New Study Gives Hope to Victims of CFS,” Smithsonian Magazine, Aug. 2 2017
- “CFS traced to Mitochondria,” ABC News, May 2017
- “The NIH is going all out to find the roots of CFS,” NBC News, May 3 2017
- “Another Study Just Linked CFS to Gut Bacteria,” Science Alert, April 27 2017
- “CFS linked to imbalanced microbiome,” AAAS, April 26, 2017
- “Chronic Fatigue Syndrome: Evidence Of Atypical Subgroup Discovered,” The Science Times, April 2017
- “Biological underpinnings of chronic fatigue syndrome begin to emerge,” Nature Journal, March 2017
- “Metabolic Switch May Bring on Chronic fatigue Syndrome,” Daily Scientist, Feb. 2017.
- “Getting it Wrong on Chronic Fatigue Syndrome,” New York Times, March 2017
- “Entrepreneur Needed To Cure Anti-Initiative Disease,” Forbes Magazine, Jan. 26, 2017
- “Blood simple? A new test may diagnose a mysterious illness and also help explain it,” The Economist, Sept. 2016
- “Chronic Fatigue Syndrome is in your gut not your head,” Science Daily, June 2016“
- Mind the Gap: Ethical Failures in the Treatment of Chronic Fatigue Syndrome“, Journal of Medical Ethics, Dec. 2016
- Washington Post article on Whitney Dafoe, Oct. 2015
- New Yorker article on IOM report, Feb. 2015
- The Atlantic article on neglect of ME/CFS patients, Oct., 2015
PACE Trial
“Call for review of ‘flawed’ ME research in Lancet letter,” The Times
“Tribunal orders university to release data from PACE chronic fatigue study,” BMJ, August 22, 2016
“Patients, Scientists Fight Over Research-Data Access,” The Wall Street Journal, March 7, 2016