Much Ado About Something! - XMRV and CFS
In October 2009 The Whittemore Peterson Institute (WPI) published an account of findings in the journal "Science" by Lombardi et al that rapidly spread around the world. WPI claimed to have found that...
View ArticleThere was good medical news yesterday. So now what?
There was good medical news yesterday. Let's take a walk through ME/CFS, XMRV and MS, CCSVI... In 1995, Paolo Zamboni, an Italian surgeon, did not accept common medical answers when his wife was...
View ArticleChronic Tonic: Good Medical News - Now What?
CHRONIC TONIC posts on Thursdays at 9 p.m. EST, it is a place to share stories, advice, and information and to connect with others with chronic health conditions and those who care for them. Our...
View ArticleScience is Science. Politics is Politics. Or Not.
Maybe it is Political Science, and not the kind we learned in school. Earlier this week I wrote a diary giving two examples of promising medical findings that, it appears, government/academic/corporate...
View ArticleFahrenheit 451 for what ails you
By miraculous convergence, or by virtue of a coordinated campaign—take your pick—four research studies were published in the same medical journal this week all saying there was nothing, absolutely...
View ArticleUPDATE: Retroviruses, ME/CFS, Media, the dKos Community
A few days ago I wrote about the surprising simultaneous release of four research papers that seemed to say that the connection between myalgic encephalomyelitis/chronic fatigue syndrome (ME/CFS) and...
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