Posted by Cort Johnson Caroline Anderson’s gripping novel “A Chronic Fatigue Syndrome Novel” protray’s a small communities fight for health (and justice) in the face of a mysterious disorder. When the lead character goes searching for answers she stumbles into a shadowy and even, at times, dangerous world of tainted government agencies and big corporations doing what they need to
ContinuePosted by Cort Johnson I missed the meeting and the video is not up yet but got Dr. Mikovit’s slides and Alex provided a summary as well. (This is a little late but we’ve had trouble posting to the website lately). The high point of Dr. Mikovits talk was her report of finding an human signature of infection in her
ContinuePosted by Cort Johnson Discuss this article on the forums As the International Workshop on Chronic Fatigue Syndrome (ME/CFS) approaches now is a good time to look at where we are. The Workshop is just two days but it’s a big deal because it will present where the state of XMRV, of course, dominated our interest last year but quite
ContinuePosted 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
ContinuePosted 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.”
ContinuePosted 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
ContinuePosted 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
ContinuePosted 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
ContinuePosted 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
ContinuePosted 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
ContinuePosted 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
ContinuePosted 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
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