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  1. John Mac

    Preprint A Proposed Mechanism for ME/CFS Invoking Macrophage Fc-gamma-RI and Interferon Gamma, 2025, Edwards, Cambridge and Cliff

    https://meassociation.org.uk/2025/05/preprint-a-proposed-mechanism-for-me-cfs-invoking-macrophage-and-interferon-gamma/?utm_source=rss&utm_medium=rss&utm_campaign=preprint-a-proposed-mechanism-for-me-cfs-invoking-macrophage-and-interferon-gamma MEA Comment Thanks to Professors Jonathan Edwards...
  2. John Mac

    Trial Report Effect on QoL of Therapeutic Plasmapheresis and Intravenous Immunoglobulins on a Population of ME/CFS Patients, 2025, Oesch-Regeni

    Full title: The Effect on Quality of Life of Therapeutic Plasmapheresis and Intravenous Immunoglobulins on a Population of Myalgic Encephalomyelitis/Chronic Fatigue Syndrome Patients with Elevated β-Adrenergic and M3-Muscarinic Receptor Antibodies—A Pilot Study...
  3. John Mac

    Patients with severe ME/CFS need hope and expert multidisciplinary care, 2025, Miller et al

    https://bibliotheek.ehb.be:2370/content/389/bmj.r977/rr-23 Rapid Response: ME/CFS care must be grounded in lived experience and biomedical research Dear Editor I read with attention the opinion piece by Miller and colleagues “Patients with severe ME/CFS need hope and expert multidisyciplinary...
  4. John Mac

    Preprint Mobius: Mixture-Of-Experts Transformer Model in Epigenetics of ME/CFS and Long COVID, 2025, Acharya & Jacoby

    https://www.biorxiv.org/content/10.1101/2025.05.25.656018v1 Abstract Myalgic Encephalomyelitis/Chronic Fatigue Syndrome (ME/CFS) and Long COVID are chronic debilitating post-infectious illnesses that collectively affect up to 470 million individuals. Unlike illnesses of comparable scale, there...
  5. John Mac

    Exercise-induced Changes in Microclotting and Cytokine Levels Point to Vascular Injury and Inflammation in People with LC, 2025, Callum Thomas et al

    If they had included healthy controls it would have been interesting to see if the blood clots also occured in them.
  6. John Mac

    The Relation Between Cardiac Output and Cerebral Blood Flow in ME/CFS Patients with a POTS Response During a Tilt Test, 2025, van Campen et al

    Abstract Background/Objectives: Orthostatic intolerance is prevalent in patients with myalgic encephalomyelitis/chronic fatigue syndrome (ME/CFS) and is caused by an abnormal reduction in cerebral blood flow (CBF). In healthy controls (HCs), CBF is regulated complexly, and cardiac output (CO) is...
  7. John Mac

    UK: Disability benefits (UC, ESA and PIP) - news and updates 2024 and 2025

    https://www.icontact-archive.com/archive?c=144836&f=2941&s=6745&m=1193534&t=9e9c98a7d9387eb5c584b7e81a15d03a3040ca2700682dadb514b7c01a8d57f0 DWP BURIED DAMNING REPORTS The DWP very quietly published a series of damning disability benefits related reports at 4pm on Friday 2 May, on the eve of a...
  8. John Mac

    Exploring Current ME/CFS and Long COVID Clinical Trials on National Clinical Trials Day, May 20 2025, Solve ME.

    https://solvecfs.org/exploring-current-me-cfs-and-long-covid-clinical-trials-on-national-clinical-trials-day/ May 20 is National Clinical Trials Day! When conducting clinical trials, researchers test how interventions (like behavioral changes, drugs, or medical devices) affect people. Usually...
  9. John Mac

    Evaluating the Causal Role of Genetically Inferred Immune Cells and Inflammatory Cytokines on ME/CFS, 2025, Duan et al

    https://www.mdpi.com/2227-9059/13/5/1200 Abstract Background/Objectives: Myalgic encephalomyelitis/chronic fatigue syndrome (ME/CFS) is a multifaceted and diverse disorder with an ambiguous etiology. Recent evidence indicates that immune system impairment and inflammatory mechanisms are pivotal...
  10. John Mac

    2025: UK MEA Article and Video: ME/CFS: What you need to know about the disease

    https://meassociation.org.uk/2025/05/new-updated-booklet-what-you-need-to-know-about-me-cfs/#:~:text=underlying disease process.-,ME/CFS is a complex, chronic medical condition affecting multiple,kind of effort or activity. New updated booklet: What you need to know about ME/CFS May 15, 2025...
  11. John Mac

    UK: British Psychological Society: Long Covid to work on practice guidelines.

    That's about all the effort needed to work in BPS
  12. John Mac

    UK: British Psychological Society: Long Covid to work on practice guidelines.

    Merged thread Vacancy: Assistant Psychologist for the BPS ME/CFS https://www.bps.org.uk/assistant-psychologist-bps-mecfs Good Practice guidelines for working with people with Long Covid Would you like to join a team of psychologists and experts by experience to help codevelop good practice...
  13. John Mac

    Patients with severe ME/CFS need hope and expert multidisciplinary care, 2025, Miller et al

    https://www.bmj.com/content/389/bmj.r977 Opinion piece Reframing beliefs about illness, along with specialist rehabilitation, can help recovery in people with severe ME/CFS, write Alastair Miller, Fiona Symington, Paul Garner, and Maria Pedersen Myalgic encephalomyelitis/chronic fatigue...
  14. John Mac

    BBC article: Spoan syndrome: The rare disease in a remote town where 'almost everyone is a cousin'

    The BPS people would have had a field day with these people.
  15. John Mac

    Eye movement deficits in ME/CFS and sleep deprivation

    Only people with ME will understand that.
  16. John Mac

    United Kingdom: National Health Service (NHS) news

    I always thought that talking therapies were a way for the NHS to save money by replacing actual care with a cheaper alternative.
  17. John Mac

    Living with myalgic encephalomyelitis/chronic fatigue syndrome: Experiences of occupational disruption for adults in Australia, 2021, Bartlett et al

    But where is the evidence that occupational therapy can prevent the negative impacts of ME/CFS?
  18. John Mac

    Crowdfunding for David Tuller during April 2025

    $63,457 raised, 93% of target 17 hours left https://crowdfund.berkeley.edu/project/46120
  19. John Mac

    Crowdfunding for David Tuller during April 2025

    $54,446 raised, 80% of total 2 days left https://crowdfund.berkeley.edu/project/46120
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