Chronic Fatigue Syndrome (ME/CFS) News

International XMRV Workshop Lineup - Conference and Workshop lineups can tell you alot about who's in and who's out. I remember a CDC lecture at the Reno CFS conference; it was a nothing lecture but there it was in prime time. Why? Probably because the CDC had to be given some space. Why is Dr. Komarof always given the end address at the IACFS/ME International ME/CFS Conferences? Is it because he's so brilliant or because he gives such a great presentation? He does give a great presentation but I suspect that one reason he's always given such a prominent position is that he is a middle of the road, respectable researcher who just happens to hail from Harvard. He gives a good gloss to the proceedings. ...

I finally found a few things that are working for me. And this is after looking for a very long time. You won’t get rich off it, but it can be built up to a week’s grocery money. It really just depends on how determined you are, how much time and effort you put into it. I started to investigate the paid survey sites. For years, I heard tales of people making anywhere from ninety to a few hundred dollars a month off the surveys. I always thought it was bull. But a net friend told me his wife was doing it, and then I met a few others who really are making good money off it. But it was a matter of knowing where to go to do it. ...

Dr. Racaniello and Dr. Bateman talked XMRV (mostly) at the CFID'S Association Webinar on Wednesday. DR. RACANIELLO gave us a bird's eye of retroviruses. Right now there are two models for human infectious retroviruses; HIV, which replicates madly in immune cells and sends millions of virions into the blood to infect more cells and HTLV-1, which does not replicate much and does it's damage by turning on bad genes in the cells it is found in (sometimes turning them cancerous). ...