Posted by Cort Johnson (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.
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Chronic fatigue syndrome (ME/CFS) Research
[LiveBlog] NIH ME/CFS State of Knowledge Workshop Coverage (Day Two, 8 Apr 2011)
Posted by Cort Johnson 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.
ContinueState of the Knowledge Workshop / 2010 Research Overviews
Posted by Cort Johnson 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
ContinueXMRV Buzz – Spinal Fluid Study/ NIH Workshop
Posted by Cort Johnson Spinal Fluid Study Negative for XMRV and other Pathogens – A couple of weeks ago a Schutzer study found abnormal levels of proteins in the spinal fluid of people with ME/CFS but this NIH funded study found no evidence of either XMRV or common pathogens in the spinal fluid of people with ME/CFS. Dr. Schutzer stated
Continue2010 ME/CFS Research Overview Pt III: Immune and Pathogen Studies (excluding XMRV)
Posted by Cort Johnson CYTOKINES Cytokines have held a special interest for CFS researchers for many years because of their ability, when we have the flu, to produce many of the symptoms found in CFS. Cytokine are not easy to measure, however, and cytokine studies have had decidedly mixed results. Since they play a key role in immune activation, however,
Continue2010 ME/CFS Research Overview Pt II: The Exercise Studies…Validation and Progress
Posted by Cort Johnson Researchers are finally starting to look at what is probably the key problem in CFS – an inability to ‘exercise’ without relapsing. Following the publication of a Pacific Fatigue Lab paper which suggested that a reduced ability to produce energy following exercise might be at the core of the post-exertional relapse (PER) problems in CFS researchers
Continue2010: the Year in ME/CFS Research – A Pre- International Workshop Overview Pt I
Posted by Cort Johnson 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 a bit of other research took
ContinueXMRV Buzz – the Infectious Pathogens Meeting…A Signature of Human Infection Found?
Posted 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
ContinueXMRV Buzz: Big Changes at WPI/EBV-XMRV Connection (3/26/11)
Posted 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
ContinueXMRV Buzz March 22nd/ New Tech Finds XMRV/Alter Stands Firm / Twiv
Posted 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
ContinueFrom the PCR Side: the Cooperative Diagnostics XMRV Interview with Dr. Brent Satterfield
Posted 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
ContinueXMRV Buzz – Silverman Concerns, BWG Study Underway, + Prostate Cancer Study
Posted 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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