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We have over 7,100 research abstracts in our library, as well as articles, news items, and press releases. You can search the library by topic, keywords, author, or date. You can also search categories and tags.

Cell-mediated immune function and the outcome of chronic fatigue syndrome

Abstract: This study examined the importance of cell-mediated immunity in determining the long-term outcome of patients diagnosed with chronic fatigue …

Are cytokines associated with neuropsychiatric syndromes in humans?

Abstract: Traditional aetiological models in neuropsychiatry have placed little emphasis on the abnormal behavioural responses (decreased psychomotor activity, anorexia, weight …

Chronic fatigue syndrome. Committee for Science and Education, Medical Association of South Africa

Abstract: OBJECTIVE: To acknowledge the clinical syndrome chronic fatigue syndrome (CFS) and outline the diagnostic criteria and reasonable management. OUTCOMES: …

Estimating rates of chronic fatigue syndrome from a community-based sample: a pilot study

Abstract: Most of the Chronic Fatigue Syndrome (CFS) epidemiological studies have relied on physicians who refer patients having at least …

Gait abnormalities in chronic fatigue syndrome

Abstract: To evaluate our clinical impression that patients with the chronic fatigue syndrome (CFS) did not walk normally, we assessed …

Comparison of coxsackie B neutralisation and enteroviral PCR in chronic fatigue patients

Abstract: Coxsackie B enteroviruses have been implicated repeatedly as agents associated with chronic fatigue syndrome (CFS). The objective of this …

Patients with a self diagnosis of myalgic encephalomyelitis

Comment in: Patients with a self diagnosis of myalgic encephalomyelitis. [BMJ. 1995] EDITOR,-Myalgic encephalomyelitis is most commonly related to an …

Chronic fatigue and the chronic fatigue syndrome: prevalence in a Pacific Northwest health care system

Abstract: OBJECTIVES: To investigate the point prevalence of the chronic fatigue syndrome and unexplained debilitating chronic fatigue in a community-based …

African green monkey origin of the atypical cytopathic ‘stealth virus’ isolated from a patient with chronic fatigue syndrome

Abstract: BACKGROUND: A cytomegalovirus-like ‘stealth virus’ had previously been isolated from a patient with the chronic fatigue syndrome (CFS). OBJECTIVE: …

“Abnormal” illness behaviour in chronic fatigue syndrome and multiple sclerosis

Abstract: OBJECTIVE: To investigate the presence of abnormal illness behaviour in patients with a diagnosis of chronic fatigue syndrome. DESIGN: A …

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Pyridostigmine and low-dose naltrexone for ME/CFS: study protocol for the Life Improvement Trial (LIFT), a randomized, double-blind, placebo-controlled clinical trial
Abstract: Background: Myalgic encephalomyelitis/chronic fatigue syndrome (ME/CFS) is a complex, chronic disease with no FDA-approved treatments. This report describes a …Read More »
Development and initial content validation of the Vienna post-exertional malaise questionnaire: an iterative mixed-methods study
Abstract: Objectives: Post-exertional malaise (PEM) is a multidimensional exertion-response pattern involving diverse triggers, variable onset, and prolonged recovery. This study …Read More »
Fibromyalgia, Chronic Fatigue Syndrome, and Multiple Sclerosis are associated with lower translocator protein binding affinity genotypes
Abstract: Introduction: Neuroinflammation is a known pathophysiologic mechanism in multiple sclerosis and a proposed mechanism in fibromyalgia and myalgic encephalomyelitis/chronic …Read More »
More common than we thought: Hypermobile Ehlers-Danlos Syndrome, comorbidity burden, and long COVID risk in a national cohort
Abstract: Hypermobile Ehlers-Danlos Syndrome (hEDS) is a complex, underdiagnosed connective tissue disorder characterized by widespread symptoms affecting multiple organ systems. …Read More »
A Woman With Multiple Neuropathic Symptoms, Hypersensitivity to Heat, Peppers, and Alcohol, With a Variant in the TRPV1 Capsaicin Receptor Gene: Possible Implications to ME/CFS
Abstract: Transient receptor potential vanilloid 1 (TRPV1) is a ligand and heat-gated ion channel expressed on nociceptors that plays a …Read More »