Posted by Cort Johnson Discuss this article on the forums Hope I am posting this OK (haven’t done it before…yikes!). Saw this on another website today and don’t think it has been brought up before…if it has I apologise. The ME association are reportedly going to comment later in the week …….. This editorial comment appeared in the British Medical
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Q & A After XMRV and CFS Lecture By Dr. David Bell (Jan 15th, 2010)
Posted by Cort Johnson Discuss this article on the forums Written by thefreeprisoner Transcribed by thefreeprisoner Bell: And perhaps we can open it up for questions. One question only. So you’ve got to choose the best of those 20 questions… Q1: You mentioned the pecentage of CFS patients with XMRV. Of healthies with XMRV, nobody knows the percentage of people
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Discuss this article on the forums Written by Kelvin Lord Treatment #4 Today’s Ampligen infusion marked the fourth and last treatment at the 200ml “adjustment” or acclimation dosage. I’m now into a quaisi-routine, arriving at the clinic around 9:30AM every Monday and Thursday morning, and the procedure goes amazingly fast. In less than 3 minutes Gwen has me hooked up
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Posted by Cort Johnson Discuss this article on the forums Written by thefreeprisoner Transcribed by ‘thefreeprisoner’ January 15th 2010 Well thank you very much, it’s a great pleasure to be here. We always try to find some place to go in January and February from upstate New York. [laughter] This is a wonderful place. Let’s see if we can get
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Discuss this article on the forums Written by thefreeprisoner Transcription by Kim Judy Mikovits Section 2 (Video #1: 27+ mins to 40:08) On some of these patients we looked three and four times for the DNA in the unstimulated cells. So this is just that pellet that I made when I sorted all the various samples. I just held one
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Posted by Cort Johnson Discuss this article on the forums Written by thefreeprisoner Transcriptions by Advocate, JAS, Lily, thefreeprisoner, Kim & garcia of the Phoenix Rising Forums Question: Before any of the questions I just wanted to say thank you because through your work and your collaboration, you’ve bought more excitement to the CFS community and your collaborators have than
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Posted by Cort Johnson Discuss this article on the forums Written by thefreeprisoner Transcribed by Sproogle …the response elements that might give us a clue as to the pathogenesis and then Bob Silvermans lab showed the same thing. He showed that androgens stimulate transcription (the replication and division of the virus). So here’s a clue to the disease because we
ContinueDr Bell’s January 2010 XMRV lecture – Part 2 of 2 by ‘the freeprisoner’
Posted by Cort Johnson Discuss this article on the forums Written by thefreeprisoner [If you missed it, part 1 of this transcription is here] When you look at XMRV at this point, it seems to me that this is a very good theorietical cause for the illness but that’s gonna take some time before that’s proven. And I’m happy to
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A Look Back at Dr. Reeves CDC
Posted by Cort Johnson A look back at the Pro’s and Con’s of Dr. Reeves Tenure at the CDC THE PRO’s – despite the antagonism towards Dr. Reeves there were some pro’s to his program A commitment to research – whatever you want to say about Dr. Reeves he was a vigorous ME/CFS researcher. We can’t know what the internal
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Posted by Cort Johnson In a startling announcement on 3pm on Friday the CFIDS Association of America reported that the man who’d vowed to outlast everyone, Dr. Willam Reeves of the CDC, was out and that Dr. Elizabeth Unger was temporarily taking over controls of the CDC’s CFS Research program. Certainly, no one expected this. At the end of the
ContinueMy Ampligen Treatment Begins (The Ampligen Chronicles (Trt#1) by Kelvin Lord
Posted by Cort Johnson Discuss this article on the forums Written by Kelvin Lord Treatment #1 The adventure begins. I arrived at the Doctor’s office a few minutes late because of bad planning on my part, so I was a little stressed to begin with. It took them about a minute to get me set up in a nice reclining
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Posted by Cort Johnson The Recovery/Recovering Stories #4 Janet’s Story What really attracted me to Janet’s story was how multi-dimensional it was. She’s had both severe endocrine dysfunction and severe pathogen problems. Both high doses of antivirals and alternative ‘behavioral-like’ therapies like meditation and her own quest for (spiritual) wholeness have been important for her. She’s still quite ill but
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