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…
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…
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…
These diverse research approaches are complementary, exciting signs that better results are to come. Research has become more multidisciplinary in recent years, with the need to integrate findings in diverse fields. Over the past year, CDC scientists have worked 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…
Neurological Dysfunction in Chronic Fatigue Syndrome, Journal of Chronic Fatigue Syndrome (The Haworth Medical Press, an imprint of The Haworth Press, Inc.) Vol. 6, No. 3/4, 2000, pp. 51-68. Abhijit Chaudhuri, DM, MD, MRCP; Peter 0. Behan, DSc, MD, FACP, Read more… Read more →
National Patient Registry If you have FM or CFS/ME, then please help move the science forward. Be willing to look at research proposals and then decide if you wish to participate. With one million patients in Canada, we 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 →
M.E. Epidemics 1934 1. Los Angeles City and California State, USA Epidemic among personnel at L.A. County Hospital, Ruth Protection Home and throughout California, paralleling poliomyelitis, often diagnosed as atypical poliomyelitis, sometimes including arthropathy. 1936 2. Fond-du-Lac, Wisconsin, USA An outbreak Read more… Read more →