by admin on April 6, 2011
The State of the Knowledge Workshop is here and it’s a good one. A hearty congratulations to Pat Fero, Mary Schweitzer, Ken Friedman, Dr. Jason, Dr. Klimas, Dr. Vernon and Dennis Mangan for what they’ve produced. The last NIH Workshop/Conference of this sort was the Neuroimmune Conference of eight years ago and was filled with NIH researchers who had little or no experience with CFS. This conference on the other hand is packed with ME/CFS researchers.
After overviews by Dr. Komaroff (who else?) and Dr. Jason (who else?) on characterizing and defining ME/CFS the Workshop jumps into four 20 minute presentations on EBV (Glaser), enteroviruses (Chia) and XMRV (Mikovits/Coffin).… Read More
Here’s a slightly ‘kludged’ transcript of Day one of the NIH ME/CFS State of Knowledge Workshop. Some off-topic chat posts have been removed for clarity, but no remaining lines of the transcript have been altered.
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We’re going to try something new, live coverage of the workshop. Since this is last minute, we need volunteers to help cover the event. Let us know if you’d like to help with a comment here or via reply in the forum article that I’m posting. You can watch the event here or in the forums.
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by admin on April 10, 2011
(There were some formatting and grammatical errors in the first post; this is a revised submission – my apologies)
It wasn’t surprising at all to see things get heated with Dr. Coffin and Dr. Mikovits both up at bat at the State of Knowledge Workshop.
The moderator, Dr. Alter, handled his job with humor and flair. Stating that he was no King Solomon and was certainly unable to determine who’s ‘baby’ XMRV is at this point; Dr. Coffin’s or Dr. Mikovits – Dr. Alter gave at times a wry and clear-headed assessment of where the Workshop was after the Mikovits and Coffin’s presentation…
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by admin on April 17, 2011
Chronic Fatigue Syndrome and the Pathophysiology of EBV Infection – Dr. Glaser
Dr. Glaser started off by noting that studies have found a strong association between HHV6, EBV and chronic fatigue syndrome (ME/CFS) and then, perhaps in reference to all the attention given to XMRV over the past year and a half, stated that any other viral discoveries (guess who?) must account for the fact that these viruses have been shown to be present in ME/CFS.
Dr. Mikovits, of course, has repeatedly referred to pathogenic ‘co-factors’, e.g., viruses like EBV and HHV6 that complete the picture of an immune-depleting retrovirus that, in an HIV-like fashion, allows other pathogens to proliferate.… Read More
by admin on April 20, 2011
Stating that there’s been a ‘major revolution in science… brought about by technological advances that have allowed us to look at data generated in the lab in a different way” Dr. Basil Aldadah kicked off the Systems Biology session. These studies tend to use sophisticated analytical techniques to look at very large amounts of data. They are expensive, resource intensive studies that some people think provide the best opportunity to understand complex disorders like chronic fatigue syndrome. Others wonder, ultimately, how accurate they are.
Gordon Broderick (Minute 204) – Regulatory Imbalance in Myalgic Encephalomyelitis/Chronic Fatigue Syndrome: A Network Approach
There are ups and downs in every conference and Broderick’s presentation, which generated quite a bit of discussion throughout the conference, was definitely one of the ‘ups’.… Read More
