Discuss this article on the forums Written by usedtobeperkytina I just wanted to give my review of the PR with the latest events. First we had the rumor of a pulled press release from CDC. Seems what was pulled was the study. If there was a press release with it, it was not just temporarily pulled but permanently pulled. So,
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Posted by Cort Johnson Discuss this article on the forums Written by Kelvin Lord With my nose completely shut due to allergies, out of desperation the other day I took an OTC antihistamine. It was Italian day at lunch and I had grown weary of not tasting any of my food, so ignoring the instruction panel I ripped open the
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Posted by Cort Johnson Discuss this article on the forums After a turbulent couple of weeks in which both the negative CDC paper and positive Alter paper were reportedly about to be published and then, at the behest of public health officials at the DHHS, both were withdrawn, the CDC paper was published in the Journal Retrovirology. As was rumored
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Posted by Cort Johnson [ATTACH]3001[/ATTACH]Amy Dockser Marcus at the Wall Street Journal has become the go-to journalist for news on XMRV and CFS in the national media. Now she’s broken the news that the Alter study, soon to be published in the prestigious journal “The Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences of the United States of America”, has now
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Posted by Cort Johnson Amy Dockser Marcus at the Wall Street Journal has become the go-to journalist for news on XMRV and CFS in the national media. Now she’s broken the news that the Alter study, soon to be published in the prestigious journal “The Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences of the United States of America”, has now
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Posted by Cort Johnson Patients leapt for joy at the news suggesting that the WPI’s findings have been validated by two major institutions in the US but not everybody was happy that the information had been released in a way it was. The Whittemore Peterson Institute’s Facebook site posted a link to Dr. Raccienllo’s blog but refused to discuss the
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Posted by Cort Johnson Dutch Journalists have been all over the European XMRV Conferences. Now in a startling announcement two Dutch journalists from the Health Professionals Journal Ortho report that they were able to obtain a lecture from NIH official Dr. Harvey Alter at the Blood Transfusion workshop May 26/27th in Zagreb, stating that both the FDA and NIH had
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Posted by Cort Johnson Discuss this article on the forums Written by Cort I put this together after getting an email from someone I know about a kind of unusual treatment that worked very well for her. June’s adrenal glands weren’t just low – they were shot. In fact her cortisol levels were low enough to get her diagnosed with
ContinueOpen Pandora’s Moneybox – Vote in the Chase Community Giving Contest
Posted by Cort Johnson When I finally got what the Chase Community Giving Contest really is it made my jaw drop. What it is is easy money for non-profits – and lots of it – and in these difficult economic times that’s a godsend for nonprofits. Chase has deposited a boatload of money (5 million dollars) that it’s going to
ContinueA Chronic Fatigue Syndrome (ME/CFS) Patient Returns: An Interview with Martha Kilcoyne by Cort Johnson
Posted by Cort Johnson Discuss this article on the forums Quote: After a bout with the flu when she was pregnant in 1993 Martha Kilcoyne was stuck with flu-like symptoms that never went away. On disability after two years of fruitless battle with the disease, she and her husband started over from ground zero. Working by themselves they pioneered several
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Posted by Cort Johnson Discuss this article on the forums Shopping! The easy way to support Phoenix Rising as it takes on some large projects. Every time you use Phoenix Rising to purchase something on Amazon.com Phoenix Rising will receive a 4 to 8% return on your purchase. All your purchases will take place on a special Phoenix Rising section
ContinueDr. Nancy Klimas on Her New Clinic and More
Posted by Cort Johnson Dr. Klimas has been one of the central figures in CFS. A prominent AIDS researcher in the mid-1980’s she became acquainted with CFS when patients with another strange kind of immune dysfunction showed up on her door. In Osler’s Web she recounts that she, like everyone else, ‘tried not to believe in it” (eg CFS) but
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