22 September 2011
A summary of recent M.E. related stories in the news. Headlines appearing in the media as dated.
NIH funds $1 million study on fatigue
A team of anesthesiologists have been awarded more than $1 million by the National Institutes of Health, enabling it to expand its research for the next three years.
Kathleen and Alan Light, both Ph.D. research professors, will increase their study by more than 140 subjects to distinguish chronic fatigue syndrome from fibromyalgia.
The Daily Utah Chronicle
http://www.dailyutahchronicle.com/news/campus/national-institutes-of-health-funds-1-million-study-on-fatigue/
21/09/11
M.E. research is welcome
Letter from Sir Peter Spencer, Action for M.E., welcoming the Bristol University research estimating the cost of ME/CFS at £102.2 million a year. He says the key message for the Government and Department of Health is that the financial costs of failing to address the illness properly are much greater then the money required to fund much-needed biomedical research and to set up NHS specialist services.
Bristol Evening Post, p 12
22/09/11
Key questions on CFS
Consultant rheumatologist Dr Selwyn Richards answers GP Dr Julian Spinks's questions about diagnosis and therapies.
Pulse, p 20 - 21
21/09/11
New international criteria for M.E.
In a letter to the editor, Dr John Greensmith, M.E. Community Trust, welcomes the new International Consensus Criteria for M.E. compiled by 26 experts from across the world.
Bristol Evening Post, p 12
21/09/11
Focus on Magnesium
Article about the supplement magnesium. It says UK reserach has found that people with CFS have lower red blood cell magnesium levels than healthy people and that CFS patients given magnesium injections for six week had more energy, less pain and felt better emotionally.
Healthy Magazine, p 28
01/09/11
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