New Article
http://www.sciencemag.org/content/early/2011/05/31/science.1208542.full.pdf
In the Expression of Concern chief editor of the Science Journal stated that two new articles appearing in their journal ‘strongly support the growing view that the association between XMRV and CFS……likely reflects the contamination and research reagents with the virus”
One of the papers will provide evidence suggesting that XMRV is derived from the 22RVI cell-line. The second paper which involved Dr. Jay Levy….and Konstance Knox - who has authored several papers on pathogens in CFS.… Read More
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The Vivint Facebook Contest gives us another opportunity to win our research starved field some money. Vivint is spreading $1,250,000 around US and Canadian non-profits this summer. The WPI entered the contest late but has a great chance of winning a substantial amount of money.
Key Facts
- Facebook contest
- Two Rounds
- Five Regions in the US and Canada
Winning Round I simply gets the org into Round II (no money is won yet). The top 20 vote-getters from each region in Round I go onto Round II where they compete for $1,250,000. Nobody wins anything after Round I.… Read More
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The Chase Community Giving Contest is almost like a pot that never stops giving. Round II of the Chase Contest is over but believe it or not there is still one opportunity left and still plenty of money left in Chase’s pot.
Chase is now looking for a worthy cause which did not win $100,000 or more by popular vote which it will give up to $200,000 (plus another 300k all charities in round two are eligible for) and we can help them decide which one it it is by sending them a letter. Certainly there is no cause more deserving than a million ill people being ignored by the federal government.… Read More
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Rivka has helped to organize protests in Atlanta and Washington DC and now here she and others did so in San Francisco. This protest in front of a DHHS building triggered an article in the San Francisco Chronicle titled ‘Chronic fatigue patients protest lack of funding’ .
Dr. Montoya was featured prominently in it and called it ‘the Disease of the 21st century that we need to crack”
Please go to the article and do two things. Click on the Facebook link if you have a Facebook account and share it…and then register for the Chronicle and comment on it.… Read More
In the year and a half since the WPI’s Science XMRV paper they have received no grants from the federal government to study XMRV, despite several attempts to procure funding. A Gulf War news site (91Outcomes.com) reported back in March that the Congressionally Directed Medical Research Program (CDMRP) recommended funding 12 new studies, two of which were on XMRV and one of which (gasp) was produced by the Whittemore Peterson Institute.
The WPI study (Detection of XMRV in Gulf War Illness: Role in Pathogenesis or Biomarker?) will, if it is funded, look for XMRV in GW Illness and determine if it plays a role in that illness or is a biomarker.… Read More
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This is the last day of the Chase contest and the WPI has slipped out of the top ten. Don’t give up hope! The swings in the last two days can be huge and a similar thing happened to PANDORA last year and in the last hours they rebounded.
The best way to get out a lot of votes is probably to do what Ann did
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I’ve had quite a lot of success with friends voting by sending them personal messages via FB. I wrote an update and why WPI is important to me with the voting details.
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Gulf War Illness (GWI) and chronic fatigue syndrome (ME/CFS) have both struggled for recognition. Recent findings implicating similar findings in both disorders suggest each disorder could soon be helping the other gain more recognition and study.
Throw in a recent rare advocacy win for ME/CFS supporting collaboration between the two fields and hope rises that not only will we be seeing more GWI/CFS studies in the future but that the two fields will piggyback off the other – helping each to gain momentum and acceptance.
Indeed, it looks like the first XMRV grant that the WPI gets from the federal government may very well be on none other than Gulf War Illness…
WPI Gets its Grant?… Read More
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The CFIDS Association of America has opened a new ME/CFS Research Information Center….whoops it’s actually still a “CFS” (c’mon you guys! 
) site called Research1st that will be a ‘one-stop shop’ for information on the latest research news. Let’s take a look at it.
Research Initiatives – The Current Research section has a “New Research Initiatives’ section – a easy way to track the who’s doing what where…such as the CAA’s $600,000 Request for Applications (RFA) in April.
The CAA’s RFA – PR did not cover the RFA and now is a good time. That the CAA, after what must have been two or three of the most financially challenging years in its existence, was able to raise $600,000 more dollars for ME/CFS research, is encouraging.… Read More
