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
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Research into XMRV and chronic fatigue syndrome (ME/CFS)
Another 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
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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
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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
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
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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
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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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Posted by Cort Johnson Dr. Peterson Leaves the Building (er Construction Site) – Our putative ‘April surprise’ turned out to be a real shocker. Six months prior to the WPI opening in its new facility the WPI announced that he was leaving the Medical Director’s position at the WPI and returning to practice at his clinic. Both parties have remained
ContinueDr. Mikovits Chat’s on XMRV
Posted by Cort Johnson Dr. Mikovits has been in touch with patients more than any other researcher by several magnitudes and a couple of days ago I got to chat with her on a variety of topics. Some questions had been raised about the WPI’s two collaborators in the Science paper, the National Cancer Institute and the Cleveland Clinic. We
ContinueXMRV and ME/CFS: Check, Check, Check
Posted by Cort Johnson The past few months have not been easy for XMRV. The head of the Dutch study flatly stated that he believed the WPI’s samples had been contaminated. Dr. Shepard’s assessment was nothing if not gloomy and Dr. Vernon’s seemed to suggest that if the WPI’s results stood up that they probably applied only for a select
ContinueXMRV’s Big Test Has Begun: The Fed Study Ramps Up
Posted by Cort Johnson Courtesy of the Wall Street Journal we finally got a look at what will surely be the most comprehensive XMRV study that we’ll see. It will surely clear up many of the questions surrounding the virus. It’s a full bore effort; one that probably only the federal government could take on. Six labs will be involved
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