Posted by Cort Johnson Kim McCleary stated that the Alter paper was the most anticipated research paper on ME/CFS ever and she was surely right. Demonstrating a remarkable online viral spread of its own Kim reported over 150 media outlets quickly jumped on the XMRV story. The story sent attendance at the Phoenix Rising Forums zooming, quickly breaking the record
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CAA Talks with the Experts on XMRV
Posted by Cort Johnson The CFIDS Association started off what’s going to be an exciting week for XMRV with a CFIDLINKs devoted to asking the experts about XMRV. Fittingly enough Dr. Lo and Alter were first. After noting that both groups, the Alter/Lo and WPI/NCI/Cleveland Clinic groups had found a similar ‘strong association’ between murine Leukemia retroviruses (in one case
ContinueVindication? Dr. Mikovits Breaks the News on the FDA XMRV Study
Posted by Cort Johnson Several weeks prior to publication Dr. Mikovits spilled the beans on the XMRV FDA study stating in an interview with RGJ.Com, what has seemed to be more and more obvious – that the FDA paper in press is going to confirm the WPI’s findings when it is released. While no one yet had directly said so,
Continue“Where’s the Beef?” The WPI and the NIH
Posted by Cort Johnson ‘Where’s the Beef’ became a key catch phrase of the 1984 Presidential campaign but one wonders if the WPI is asking themselves the same thing today. They produced a major finding that got the feds to throw a substantial amount of money at XMRV none of which, thus far, has made to the WPI. The WPI
ContinueThe CFIDS Association XMRV Webinar with Dr. Racaniello and Dr. Bateman
Posted by Cort Johnson Dr. Racaniello and Dr. Bateman talked XMRV (mostly) at the CFID’S Association Webinar on Wednesday. DR. RACANIELLO gave us a bird’s eye of retroviruses. Right now there are two models for human infectious retroviruses; HIV, which replicates madly in immune cells and sends millions of virions into the blood to infect more cells and HTLV-1, which
ContinueAnother Kind of XMRV? Dr. Racaniello and Dr. Mikovits on XMRV
Posted by Cort Johnson The Central Issue Remains the Same – How to Find XMRV? – I asked Dr. Mikovits and Dr. Racaniello about XMRV and both were good enough to give their viewpoints on where we stand now. This is a long article; in it they talk about * how to test for XMRV * whether a different type
ContinueConspiracy or Confusion?
Posted by Cort Johnson Hillary Johnson has just posted a long blog that provides alot of backup information on the controversies over the last couple of weeks. According to one of her resources the directors of the NIAID and the NIH as well as administrators at the CDC, were all involved in the withdrawal of the Alter paper. She reports
Continue‘Altered’ Reality: the XMRV Papers Disappearing Trick
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
ContinueDutch XMRV Leak Reverberates
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
ContinueXMRV Confirmation Just Around the Corner? Journalists Report that NIH and FDA Confirm Findings…
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
ContinueXMRV Is…..Is……Is…..There!
Posted by Cort Johnson XMRV is…is…..is….There! – Yes, someone actually found XMRV. (gasp!). They weren’t looking for it in the blood or in the prostate tissue or in CFS patients and no, it wasn’t a US Lab that found it, it was a German lab remarkably enough but after months of no positive results it was remarkable finding…XMRV appears to
ContinueDr. Coffin on XMRV
Posted by Cort Johnson The crew at the Phoenix Rising Forums has been busy. Rrrr – went so far as to snag Dr. Coffin, one at the top retrovirologists in the country, and ask him some questions about XMRV. Tracking XMRV Down – What is he and Tufts University doing on XRMV? – Dr. Coffin is looking far, and has
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