Friday, July 30, 2010

FDA Advisory Committee to Hear About XMRV Working Group’s Research - Health Blog - WSJ

"Public health officials have been working for months to understand whether the XMRV virus poses a risk to the nation’s blood supply. The concern was sparked by a paper published last year in Science that detected the virus in the blood of 67% of chronic fatigue syndrome patients, compared to just 3.7% of healthy controls."

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Tuesday, July 27, 2010

Chronic Fatigue Syndrome And Fibromyalgia: P.A.N.D.O.R.A.'s Marly Silverman - EmpowHER.com

"Marly Silverman of P.A.N.D.O.R.A. encourages sufferers of fibromyalgia (FM) and Chronic Fatigue Syndrome (ME/CFS) to thrive. P.A.N.D.O.R.A. stands for Patient Alliance for Neuroendocrineimmune Disorders Organization for Research and Advocacy. The name is quite a mouthful but then so is the challenge of living with FM and ME/CFS."

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Saturday, July 17, 2010

Gun swimmer pulls pin for 2010

Gun swimmer pulls pin for 2010: "Still reeling from the retirements of Libby Trickett and Jodie Henry, the Dolphins are now getting their head around Campbell pulling out of August's Pan Pacs and October's Commonwealth Games."

Thursday, July 1, 2010

Chronic-Fatigue Syndrome Link to Virus Disputed - WSJ.com

Chronic-Fatigue Syndrome Link to Virus Disputed - WSJ.com: "Two groups of researchers studying a potential link between chronic-fatigue syndrome and a virus called XMRV have reached contradictory conclusions, according to people familiar with the findings."

Chronic fatigue findings were held back : Nature News

Another article on the release of one of the papers on CFS:

"A key study on chronic fatigue syndrome was delayed from publication after officials from the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention (CDC) in Atlanta, Georgia, learned of a conflicting report published by other government agencies"


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CDC Team’s XMRV-Chronic Fatigue Syndrome Paper Is Out - Health Blog - WSJ

"The paper is out! Or at least one of them is. Researchers, clinicians and patients in the chronic-fatigue syndrome community have been eagerly awaiting the release of two studies on the relationship between the XMRV virus and CFS, and the journal Retrovirology has just published one of them online"


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