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Aug 08, 2008 |
Article |
CFIDS&FM |
Wondering About Mercury? Environment Working Group Offers Tuna Consumption Calculator and Much More
Find the maximum amount of tuna members of your family can eat in a week, depending on weight and gender, to stay within the FDA’s health standards for mercury intake. |
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Jul 11, 2008 |
Chat |
CFIDS&FM |
Letters From Our Readers - Comments & Suggestions 07-16-08
Letters From Our Readers - Comments & Suggestions 07-16-08 |
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Jun 23, 2008 |
Article |
CFIDS&FM |
Fibromyalgia Disability Application Issues: How to Be Your Own Expert Medical Witness
Without hard lab test data to measure how sick you are, you can still provide objective evidence of how it affects your life. |
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May 05, 2008 |
Article |
CFIDS&FM |
Connecticut Attorney General's Investigation Reveals Flawed Lyme Disease Guideline Process, IDSA Agrees To Reassess Guidelines, Install Independent Arbiter
Attorney General Richard Blumenthal announced that his antitrust investigation has uncovered serious flaws in the Infectious Diseases Society of America's process for writing its 2006 Lyme disease guidelines - and the IDSA has agreed to reassess them with the assistance of an outside arbiter. |
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Apr 26, 2008 |
Article |
CFIDS&FM |
ME/CFS as a Mitochondrial Disease
ME/CFS is a disorder involving the cells’ energy-producing mitochondria – but it’s a mitochondrial disease like no other, Dr. Bell believes. He explains why it hasn’t been diagnosed, classified, and studied like other kinds of mitochondrial diseases - and why a change may be “just around the corner.” |
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Mar 24, 2008 |
Chat |
CFIDS&FM |
Letters From Our Readers - Comments & Suggestions 03-26-08
Letters From Our Readers - Comments & Suggestions 03-26-08 |
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Mar 17, 2008 |
Article,Events |
CFIDS&FM |
California Assembly Resolution Would Establish a State Task Force on Fibromyalgia
California Assemblymember Nell Soto introduced a resolution on March 3 (Assembly Concurrent Resolution 112), authored by Assemblymember Mervyn Dymally, that would establish a 15-member Legislative Task Force on Fibromyalgia for California. |
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Mar 03, 2008 |
Abstract |
CFIDS&FM |
[Cognitive behavior therapy for chronic fatigue syndrome from the patient’s perspective] [Article in Dutch]- Source: Medisch Contact, Feb 2008
The Health Council of the Netherlands states the ME/CFS “success” rate with CBT is 70% – meaning restoration to more or less normal functioning or adaptation to limitations. This Internet-based patient survey found 32% perceived some benefit, 38% felt their condition worsened, sometimes significantly, and 30% saw no change. – Source: Medisch Contact, Feb 2008 |
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Feb 24, 2008 |
Article |
CFIDS&FM |
Q&A Session (held Feb. 1) with Charles W. Lapp, MD - a World Authority on ME/CFS/FM Evaluation and Management
Chat participants worldwide joined ProHealth's Live Chat Q&A with Dr. Lapp. Based on his wide knowledge as a hands-on physician, researcher, and educator, he answered as many questions as he could, and promised a return engagement to answer more. |
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Feb 23, 2008 |
Abstract |
CFIDS&FM |
Legal and Scientific Considerations of the Exercise Stress Test - Source: Journal of Chronic Fatigue Syndrome, vol. 14, #2
This review of case law indicates "test-retest" post-exertion protocol provides an assessment of ME/CFS-related disability consistent with both medical and Legal considerations. Abstract links to full-text article. [Source: Journal of Chronic Fatigue Syndrome, vol. 14, #2] |
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