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New Resources and Videos To help the broader community better understand ME/CFS as we currently understand it, we have recently updated our webpage, What is ME/CFS. What is ME/CFS now includes supporting pages on symptoms and a comparison of the different ME/CFS diagnostic criteria. These resources are meant to be a valuable tool for you that can be shared…
Our second annual #MayMomentum campaign begins today! In recognition of May ME/CFS Awareness month, this campaign is a special effort by OMF and our community of supporters to increase awareness of ME/CFS and raise funding to accelerate urgently needed biomedical research. There are many ways you can support #MayMomentum, and we encourage you to join us. Visit our…
By Erin Allday A Stanford scientist has developed what could be the first simple blood test for chronic fatigue syndrome, a puzzling and often disabling illness that can take years to diagnose and is still largely misunderstood by mainstream medicine. The diagnostic test is built on Stanford biochemist Ron Davis’ discovery of a biological marker…
By Miriam Tucker An investigational blood test appears to reliably distinguish individuals with myalgic encephalomyelitis/chronic fatigue syndrome (ME/CFS) from healthy persons and may serve as a low-cost diagnostic for the illness, new data suggest. Rahim Esfandyarpour, PhD, from the University of California, Irvine (who was formerly at Stanford University) and colleagues reported their findings on…
Dr. Ron Davis, OMF Scientific Advisory Board Director, explains the PNAS publication on the nanoneedle (April 29, 2019) A paper describing the nanoneedle was published in the Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences. Ronald W. Davis, Ph.D. is the senior author. Rahim Esfandyarpour, Ph.D. is the lead author. The nanoneedle is a test that…
Ronald W. Davis, PhD, Director, OMF Scientific Advisory Board was interviewed at the 2019 ME/CFS International Research Conference hosted by Emerge Australia. Transcript available here.
As part of OMF’s Second Annual May Momentum campaign, OMF is going to Times Square in the heart of New York City to raise awareness on Sunday, May 12, the International ME/CFS Awareness Day. Throughout the day on May 12, OMF will be “on-screen” in Times Square on a digital billboard screen to raise awareness,…
By Miriam Tucker Bethesda, Maryland — The National Institutes of Health (NIH) held a 2-day conference on high-level science that is beginning to yield clues to understanding and ultimately treating the complex, multisystem illness now known as myalgic encephalomyelitis/chronic fatigue syndrome (ME/CFS). The Accelerating Research on ME/CFS Meeting, held on the NIH’s main campus on…
The videocast recordings from the NIH Conference “Accelerating Research on ME/CFS” held on April 4 & 5, 2019 are available below. Day 1: https://videocast.nih.gov/summary.asp?Live=31636&bhcp=1 Day 2: https://videocast.nih.gov/summary.asp?Live=31640&bhcp=1
