Sasha announces a new resource of appropriate photos for ME/CFS media stories … We’ve all seen them in the news stories about ME/CFS: the guy in a suit at the office, yawning; the beautiful woman sitting at her desk with her immaculate make-up and elegantly coiffed hair, hand to her head and looking slightly pained. But do pictures that illustrate
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Chronic Fatigue Syndrome: A Novel – A Review
Posted by Cort Johnson “And it all began just one year from today”…. So begins Edward Abbey’s classic subversive ecoclassis “The Monkey Wrench Gang” focusing on a gallant but quirky group of environmentalists that band together to stop the ravages of big Coal in the Southwest. Caroline Anderson’s gripping portrayal of a small communities fight for health (and justice) in
ContinueComedown at CROI: XMRV and CFS at the Conference on Retroviruses and Opportunistic Infections
Posted by Cort Johnson A New Center – Much research and discussion now is not centered around XMRV but around a prostate cancer cell line called 22RV1. More than anything else this cell line that is what is causing problems for XMRV. The 22RV1 cell line was created in 1999 in response to a need to study prostate cancer –
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Posted by Cort Johnson Another treatment book I thought…….Dr. Teitlebaum’s books had pretty comprehensively covered the waterfront for me on that end. What more could a patient authored book offer? It turns out – a lot. Maija Haavisto is a Finnish writer with CFS who’s health was declining rapidly when she found a drug, low-dose Naltrexone. (LDN), that stopped the
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