The following is a summary of relevant article/research links provided in May by Facebook members. Please click on the article name to open and read it.
Articles / Blogs
- A nanoelectronics-blood-based diagnostic biomarker for ME/CFS.
- Epstein-Barr Virus dUTPase Induces Neuroinflammatory Mediators: Implications for Myalgic Encephalomyelitis/Chronic Fatigue Syndrome.
- Stanford scientists devised a blood-based test that accurately identified people with chronic fatigue syndrome, a new study reports.
- “Just Be Positive!” Toxic Positivity, ME/CFS and Fibromyalgia.
- Should you worry about painkiller addiction?
- Threading the Needle: Nanoneedle Scores Big in First ME/CFS Test.
- ME – The Shocking Disease.
- Cognitive behavioural therapy for myalgic encephalomyelitis/chronic fatigue syndrome is not effective. Re-analysis of a Cochrane review.
- Hope for fibromyalgia sufferers as experts discover common diabetes drug ‘eradicates pain’.
- A Mother’s Story: Alem Matthees.
- Nanoelectric device could lead to a diagnostic blood test for ME/CFS.
- ME Awareness: The ME Show Special – The Real M.E. – Transcribed.
- Assessment of the scientific rigour of randomized controlled trials on the effectiveness of cognitive behavioural therapy and graded exercise therapy for patients with myalgic encephalomyelitis/chronic fatigue syndrome: A systematic review.
- A DWP-backed ‘medical scandal’ could be blown wide open.
- My ME and me: ‘I don’t remember what it’s like to not be ill’.
- Glasgow singer Stuart Murdoch joins mass ‘lie down’ protest in George Square.
- He pioneered technology that fueled the Human Genome Project. Now his greatest challenge is curing his own son. Please also see: click here
- Two new research projects received funds from the Norwegian ME Association.
- Social services can threaten families of children with Chronic Fatigue.
- Teen says teacher’s fake illness claim over ME saw her spiral towards self-harm.
- Review treatment of people with ME in Scotland.
- Low Blood Volume, ME/CFS and Slow, Chronic Sepsis.
- The Love of a Thousand Muskoxen: Grieving a Love To Time and Sickness.
- Resting-state functional connectivity, cognition, and fatigue in response to cognitive exertion: a novel study in adolescents with chronic fatigue syndrome.
- Health update #3: My ME is in remission.
- Radiation Model for Chronic Fatigue Syndrome Announced by the National CFIDS Foundation.
- Autonomic dysfunction in myalgic encephalomyelitis and chronic fatigue syndrome: comparing self-report and objective measures.
- Improvement of severe ME/CFS symptoms following surgical treatment.
- Blamed for wasting doctors’ time, branded attention-seekers and told their ailment doesn’t even exist: Three ME patients reveal the accusations they have endured during their battle with the crippling condition.
- Rest in Peace Jennifer Chittick. ME sufferer, campaigner, beloved daughter and sister.
- Concerns about craniocervical instability surgery in ME/CFS.
- Lyme Disease Toolkit.
- Novel characterisation of mast cell phenotypes from peripheral blood mononuclear cells in chronic fatigue syndrome/myalgic encephalomyelitis patients.
- MAIT Immune Cell Findings Unite U.S. and U.K. ME/CFS Researchers.
- Prognosis of ME/CFS – by David S. Bell, MD.
- Rethinking the treatment of chronic fatigue syndrome – a reanalysis and evaluation of findings from a recent major trial of graded exercise and CBT.
Members posts / local support discussions
- “I’ll never be over the hill, cause I’m too tired to climb it”.
- “Remember when you could refer to your knees as ‘right and left’, instead of ‘good and bad’? Ah good times, eh!”
- “I am a person who wants to do a lot of things trapped in a body of a person who wants to sleep a lot”.
- If you know an older person (55+ years) who could benefit from a home cooked meal and some company once a week, Mealmakers (£25 per annum) are looking for Diners in the following areas:
- Stranraer – Ardwell, Stoneykirk
- Newton Stewart – Newton Stewart, Wigtown, Sorbie, Whithorn
- Dumfries – Lochanhead
- Thornhill – Moniaive
- Annan – Annan
- Further information on Mealmakers available at: http://www.mealmakers.org.uk/ or Tel. 0800 783 7770
- ‘The Last Leg’, Channel 4 on 17th May 2019 was due to ask why kids with ME are going through child protection for refusing GET.
- Duluxetine and Amitriptyline.
Take care and gentle hugs to you all Kim J (Web Support), E-mail: kim@dgmefm.org.uk😊.