Posted by Cort Johnson Prostate Study Negative – The latest XMRV prostate cancer study by a two groups of Japanese and UK researchers (Hue, Towers) failed to find XMRV – which might not be news except that this study used the same immunohistochemistry (IHC) analysis that Dr. Singh used to find XMRV. These researchers used Dr. Singh’s IHC test and
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Food Allergies – A Missing Piece? Strategies to Combat Food Allergies
Posted by Cort Johnson Discuss this article on the forums In “On Hope and Healing” a book devoted to disorders such as ME/CFS and FM, Dr. Nathan states “Of all the ideas presented in this book, food allergy is one of the commonest and often ‘easiest’ to address. It is truly a shame that its importance is not universally recognized.”
ContinueXMRV Buzz: XMRV According to Riley (3/27/11)
Posted by Cort Johnson XMRV has taken some hits lately but there have been some hopeful hints as well and Riley on the PR Forums put a list of them together. He said “they say that the darkest hour is before the dawn, and I believe we are in that darkest hour” and here is why he believes XMRV will
ContinueXMRV Buzz: Big Changes at WPI/EBV-XMRV Connection (3/26/11)
Posted by Cort Johnson Big Changes at WPI – Dr. Lombard is taking over Dr. Mikovits position as Research Director and Dr. Mikovits is taking a new position as “Director of Translational Resources” Dr. Mikovits – The WPI’s brief announcement stated Dr Mikovits will now be focused on treatment rather than research; her new duties are to engage “in activities
ContinueXMRV Buzz March 22nd/ New Tech Finds XMRV/Alter Stands Firm / Twiv
Posted by Cort Johnson New Technology finds XMRV – Dr. Lapp sounds quite excited in his recent newsletter. Its not often you read Dr. Lapp reporting “that (the) information relayed this past week to us will change the field of medicine forever”..You don’t hear that very often! He reported that Dr. Urnovitz of Chronix Biomedical Labs. Chronix has developed an incredibly quick and inexpensive way of mapping
ContinueForums Are Moving On Thurs 3/24! (11AM PST / 2 PM EST / 1900 UK Time) – Expect Downtime
Posted by Cort Johnson Discuss this article on the forums We are in the process of making major changes to Phoenix Rising. As part of that we are going to move the Forums to a new host and new URL on Thursday. They will be down starting 11AM PST/2PM EST/1900 UK Time and should be down at the most for
ContinueWall Street Journal on "Unlocking Chronic Fatigue Syndrome"
Posted by Cort Johnson Discuss this article on the forums This is a great sign from Amy Dockser Marcus that for her ME/CFS is bigger than XMRV – that she’s interested in the disease itself. We don’t know how XMRV is going to turn out but we do know that, whatever happens with XMRV, we want Amy and others to
ContinueFrom the PCR Side: the Cooperative Diagnostics XMRV Interview with Dr. Brent Satterfield
Posted by Cort Johnson This long interview may be difficult for some. In it Dr. Satterfield presents evidence which he believes suggests that XMRV will probably not work out. We’ve had this interview sitting in our laps for about 2 1/12 weeks during which we tried to get a response from the WPI . They, however, are too busy and
ContinueXMRV Buzz – Silverman Concerns, BWG Study Underway, + Prostate Cancer Study
Posted by Cort Johnson MEDIA WEEK– this has been Media Week for XMRV as large stories have shown up in Nature Magazine, Wall Street Journal and Chicago Tribune or the past 10 days or so. Trine and the Trib on XMRV – Trine Tsouderous has carved out a place as a fierce skeptic of XMRV and the WPI over the
ContinueXMRV Buzz March 17th, 2011 – ‘Fighting for a Cause’ / Cooperative Diagnostics Interview
Posted by Cort Johnson Website Down (Again…sigh) – The website has been down for at least a week but hopefully we’re back up for good and in a new format. The website will changing quite a bit over time as we slowly create a new version of Phoenix Rising. Fighting for A Cause Dr. Mikovits and the search for XMRV was
ContinuePhoenix Rising Joins Coalition of Non-profit ME/CFS Organizations to Produce Change
Posted by Cort Johnson Phoenix Rising is proud to join the Coalition 4 ME/CFS. Every member of the Phoenix Rising Board of Directors has had ME/CFS for over ten years and we are all personally aware of its costs. A recent letter one of our Board Members, Pat Sonnett, wrote to Amy Dockser Marcus of the Wall Street Journal, summed
ContinueStraight Talk From Dr. Montoya: the Stanford Hospital CFS Lecture (March 2011)
Posted by Cort Johnson Dr. Montoya at Stanford Hospital on CFS March, 2011This definitely wasn’t an ‘get acquainted with CFS’ talk. There was no boring scholarly introduction to CFS (“Chronic fatigue syndrome effects blah, blah, blah….has x number of symptoms….blah, blah…..)…Dr. Montoya was clearly trying to wake people up. Calling ME/CFS one of the most ‘mis-perceived’ illnesses in medicine, Montoya
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