XMRV Buzz: WPI Finally Gets Its XMRV Grant? / Dr. Mikovits in Belfast / Dr. Bell in Mass (5/26)

Posted by Cort Johnson In the year and a half since the WPI’s Science XMRV paper they have received no grants from the federal government to study XMRV, despite several attempts to procure funding.  A Gulf War news site (91Outcomes.com) reported back in March that the Congressionally Directed Medical Research Program (CDMRP) recommended funding 12 new studies, two of which were on XMRV

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The Singh XMRV Study Strikes Out

Posted by Cort Johnson Dr. Singh’s study was one of the ‘biggies’ left. A murine retrovirologist at the University of Utah and the ARUP labs who had been studying (and finding) XMRV in prostate tissues, Dr. Singh started her CFS study about a year ago. Not only did it involve an expert in the field but Dr. Singh was working

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XMRV Buzz (4/10): Take the Survey,

Posted by Cort Johnson Dr. Deckoff Jones Opens Family Survey – Large scale surveys of illness in CFS families , for some reason, have not been done and yet they could open up a wealth of information about what ME/CFS is by showing what susceptibilities exist in the families.  We did a poll on Phoenix Rising and was surprised by

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XMRV 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

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