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Meta-Analysis Shows Blunted Heart Rate Contributes to Activity Intolerance in People with ME

March 23, 2019 No Comments

The Workwell Foundation issued the press release below about its meta-analysis of 20 years of studies that shows “overwhelming evidence” of chronotropic incompetence in people with ME/CFS, which contributes to activity intolerance in people with myalgic encephalomyelitis (ME). A normal response to exercise is an increase in heart rate. Failure of the heart to keep pace with an

Get involved: support science and advocacy this April

February 25, 2019 No Comments

April is going to be an incredibly exciting month for advocacy and for research into ME! The NIH is hosting a conference on ME in early April along with a Young Investigators Workshop specifically geared towards early-career investigators with interest in ME. Concurrently, there will be a Congressional lobbying push hosted by #MEAction and SMCI

Extended deadline – Attend the NIH Conference with a Scholarship from #MEAction!

January 29, 2019 No Comments

#MEAction is currently accepting applications from medical students and practicing medical professionals to attend the National Institutes of Health meeting on myalgic encephalomyelitis (ME) research on April 4th-5th, 2019 in Bethesda, MD. The application is now due at 5 p.m. EST on Tuesday, February 26th. The goal of the meeting is to showcase high-quality studies to better understand the state of the science

How Does ME Research Fare? Check Out these Piecharts.

January 8, 2019 2 Comments

Research scientist, Dr Mark Guthridge, PhD, from Melbourne Australia created this piechart to show that of these 13 diseases, people with Myalgic Encephalomyelitis/Chronic Fatigue Syndrome (ME/CFS) have the worst quality of life but the least number of scientific publications in 2018. Follow Dr. Guthridge on Twitter.

Apply for Stanford Medicine X Conference as ePatient or Presenter – deadline Jan. 31st

January 4, 2019 No Comments

Stanford University hosts an annual academic conference, Medicine X, every September to bring together community stakeholders, innovators and leaders in health care to empower collaborative change. This year’s Medicine X | Change conference will be held at Stanford University in Palo Alto, California on Sept. 20 – 22, 2019. Stanford describes the conference as, “less

Study Shows that Red Blood Cells are Stiffer in People with ME

January 2, 2019 3 Comments

Listen to the article: Researchers have published a paper that shows various measures of deformability in the red blood cells of people with Myalgic Encephalomyelitis / Chronic Fatigue Syndrome (ME/CFS) indicating that they are significantly stiffer in people with ME/CFS than those from healthy controls. The observations suggest that red blood cell transport through microcapillaries

2018 ME/CFS Research Summary

December 31, 2018 6 Comments

Commissioned and originally published by the Solve ME/CFS Initiative. Be sure to check out their interactive guide here. Follow Rochelle on Medium. 2018 was a pivotal year for ME/CFS research, yielding over 200 publications specifically addressing various aspects of ME/CFS. Foundational work emerged from prominent biomedical scientists around the globe, leveraging powerful novel technologies and

#MEAction Responds to NIH

December 21, 2018 1 Comment

As many of you know, #MEAction activists for myalgic encephalomyelitis (ME) met with the director of the National Institutes of Health (NIH), Dr. Francis Collins, on December 7 to discuss accelerating research in order to more rapidly provide diagnostics and treatments to people with ME. To read about the details of the meeting, click here.

Journal Publishes Article about ME Biobank

December 8, 2018 No Comments

Frontiers in Neurology, an open-access journal, published an article about the UK ME/CFS Biobank this week. This narrative paper describes the journey of how people with Myalgic Encephalomyelitis /Chronic Fatigue Syndrome (ME/CFS) came together with a multidisciplinary team of researchers to conceptualize and establish the biobank, which provides a critical resource for biomedical research into

Study Shows Red Blood Cells Less Deformable in ME Patients – Possible Biomarker

November 29, 2018 3 Comments

Written by Ronald W. Davis, PhD This paper documents that red blood cells are less deformable in ME/CFS patients compared to healthy controls. It potentially could be a biomarker, and we are proceeding to design new devices that will make a clear distinction between patients and healthy controls. These devices will be hand-held and easy

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