Use "Powerful Rest" to Improve Your Life

Discuss this article on the forums Written by ggingues (I snagged this from the Lifestyle Management section. This is another example of doing little things that to help improve one’s quality of life. Focused resting is a very different and, I find, much more pleasurable and restful way of resting than simply lying there. It’s not sexy and it’s no

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XMRV Buzz – The Buzz From Spain, Dr. Mikovits Branches Out

Posted by Cort Johnson The Buzz From Spain – Cristina Montane relayed a report from Dr. Julia Blanco on the meeting. Dr. Blanco first noted the usual on XMRV: that the problematic methodologies being used impair detection, contamination could be possible for some results, the polytropic MLV findings and the need to assess anti-retroviral effectiveness. ((editorial) With regards to contamination

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Of Mice and Men: The X-MLV’s and XMRV

Posted by Cort Johnson With no less than four XMLV publications under her belt during the last 14 months Kozak is the premier XMRV evolutionary biologist.  Her latest paper is a review of her and others work on murine leukemia retrovirus (MLV) evolution that delineates where contamination could come from and where it could not come from. A Hot Item!

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Washington Post ME/CFS Ad and Press Release are OUT!

Posted by Cort Johnson Discuss this article on the forums [PHP][/PHP] The MWPCA’s press release charting how the ad came about, the need for research, XMRV and Annette Whittemore noting that the NIAID has rejected six grant proposals from the WPI. P.A.N.D.O.R.A. Inc., Rocky Mountain CFS/ME and FM Association, Vermont CFIDS Association, Inc., Wisconsin ME/CFS Association, Inc. and R.E.S.C.I.N.D. and

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XMRV Buzz (12/3) – correction

Posted by Cort Johnson Some information on the former post was incorrect – here are the corrected sections. The Red Cross Ban leaves the FDA and the American Association of Blood Banks (AABB) looking a little isolated, what with Canada, Australia the UK and now the biggest single blood donation organization in the US, all turning their thumbs down on

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