FM-CFS Canada’s research project: Objective: To lower patients’ legal costs. Objective: To help more patients and lawyers win their cases, to advance case law. Strategy: Identify the information lawyers find helpful, organise for easy comparison. Invite Pro Bono law students Read more…
Mortality in a cohort of chronically fatigued patients. Journal: Psychol Med. 2006 Sep;36(9):1301-6. Authors: Smith WR, Noonan C, Buchwald D. Affiliations: Departments of Psychiatry and Behavioral Sciences and Medicine, University of Washington, Seattle, WA, USA. Correspondence: WR Smith, Harborview Medical Read more…
Gillian Lacy says she never doubted her daughter Sarah who has Chronic Fatigue Syndrome. Sarah Lacy, 18, of St. Catharines finds solace in her paintings since she was diagnosed with Chronic Fatigue Syndrome and Fibromyalgia at age 12. She painted Read more… Read more →
Mortality in a cohort of chronically fatigued patients. Journal: Psychol Med. 2006 Sep;36(9):1301-6. Authors: Smith WR, Noonan C, Buchwald D. Affiliations: Departments of Psychiatry and Behavioral Sciences and Medicine, University of Washington, Seattle, WA, USA. Correspondence: WR Smith, Harborview Medical Read more… Read more →
This illness is to fatigue what a nuclear bomb is to a match. It’s an absurd mischaracterization.” – Laura Hillenbrand, battling CFS, bestselling author of Seabiscuit World Health Organisation ICD classification of “Benign Myalgic Encephalomyelitis”: a specific condition under Read more… Read more →
Fibromyalgia Guidelines – The new Canadian Concensus Fibromyalgia Guidelines (130 pages) Onset of FM: These illnesses are different experiences for different people. Sometimes the illness hits quick and hard, in other cases it comes on slowly. There is Read more… Read more →
Karnofsky Scale adapted for use in CFS 100% Totally well; no concerns about fatigue. You can think clearly and do several things at once. You can exercise to your maximum potential without any problems. 90% Energy good but you feel Read more… Read more →