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    ME/CFS International Research Symposium, March 2019, Australia

    Has there been a write up anywhere with a summary of anything interesting from the symposium?
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    Reducing B cells with CAR T cells is effective treatment of experimental lupus

    Presumably this would be no more effective in ME than Rituximab?
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    The replication crisis is killing psychologists’ theory of how the body influences the mind (Olivia Goldhill)

    Yeah, it's pretty obvious to me that bodily dysfunction does influence my cognition and likewise the reverse as well. The big problem as I see it with psychs is that they like to ignore everything besides the mind to body effect. So I think anyone that says either of that these effects doesn't...
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    Australia: News from Griffith University, National Centre for Neuroimmunology and Emerging Diseases (NCNED)

    From Facebook post: So I guess they're still hoovering up every last drop of funding available for ME in Australia.
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    Gut Neuroinflammation Connection Revealed

    :rofl::rofl::rofl::rofl: It's not like other sections of the medical community haven't been talking about this for decades already and you're just cottoning on and patting yourself on the back like you've suddenly pulled this idea out of your ass. If this is fast science then thank god we...
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    Funding from male-pattern baldness and related issues

    Most of those don't appear to have anything to do with male pattern baldness.
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    Evidence of widespread metabolite abnormalities in ME/CFS: assessment with whole-brain magnetic resonance spectroscopy (2019) Younger et al.

    I had an MRS done late last year to look for elevated lactate and I haven't seen the actual report but according to the metabolic specialist it didn't show anything abnormal. Does anyone know if even if they're looking for a specific metabolite like lactate do these scans also report on other...
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    Study from Denmark linking infections to mental disorders

    I read a paper in the last year or so that showed that inability of the microbiome to bounce back after antibiotics was associated with pre-existing sympathetic nervous system upregulation. So it seems like the autonomic nervous system plays a regulatory role with regards to keeping the...
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    Epidemiological association between multiple chemical sensitivity and birth by caesarean section: a nationwide case-control study (2018)

    https://ehjournal.biomedcentral.com/articles/10.1186/s12940-018-0438-2
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    Australia: News from Griffith University, National Centre for Neuroimmunology and Emerging Diseases (NCNED)

    Edit: This thread includes several other threads merged with it. Some earlier threads on this team's work: The Courier Mail: Australian scientists prove CFS is real and have discovered a test for it Dec 2017 to Jan 2018 Don Staines and Griffith Aug 2018 Australia - Parliamentarians learn...
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    Erythrocyte Deformability As a Potential Biomarker for Chronic Fatigue Syndrome, Davis et al (2018)

    I just went through all the pathology results I have stored looking at ESR and this is what I found. Interestingly ESR seems to have gotten higher as I've gotten sicker. Pre-ME but still not well 2001 1 2004 1 On-set of ME still working until 2009 2006 1 2007 1 2007 2 Disabled by ME and onset...
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    Evaluation of four clinical laboratory parameters for the diagnosis of myalgic encephalomyelitis (2018) De Meirleir et al

    https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pubmed/30463572 https://translational-medicine.biomedcentral.com/articles/10.1186/s12967-018-1696-z
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    News from the Institute of Neuroimmune Medicine (INIM), NOVA, Nancy Klimas

    GWI seems to get a bunch more funding despite affecting way less people than ME.
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    SMCI RAMSAY 2018: “Whole genome sequencing and analysis of ME/CFS”, Worthey

    $45,000 will achieve not much at all. I hope they've got other grants as well.
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    Is being pushed in a wheelchair humiliating? BBC: Disabled man drags himself on floor through airport

    Thinks being pushed in a wheelchair is humiliating but dragging himself along the ground is not? :laugh: This is so stupid it's hard for me to feel sympathetic.
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    Biomarker For Flu Susceptibility

    The studies don't find that they are low but that their activity is reduced. There's still a normal number of NK cells.
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    Characteristics & determinants of dietary intake & physical activity in patients w/multiple chemical sensitivity,2018,Aguilar-Aguilar et al

    There's basically no research into MCS and yet when someone does do research it's this kind of rubbish or worse.
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    Australian 'Big Pharma' company selling homeopathic products

    These Bioglan products have been around for many years.
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