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International Awareness Day for ME/CFS, FM and Environmental Sensitivities 2016 Persistent Pain Q & A chronic pain May 11, 2016

This is a video recording of the 20 minute Q&A session done after the presentations by Dr. Moskowitz and Dr. DeLisle. Dr. Moskowitz fielded questions from both the in-house audience as well as...

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How Does Neuroplasticity Help in Pain Management? By Dr. DeLisle chronic pain May 11, 2016

 

This presentation by Dr. Michelle M. DeLisle was broadcast on May 11 during the same event with Dr. Moskowitz and immediately following the talk by Dr. Moskowitz. In this talk, Dr. DeLisle...

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Is the Cell Danger Response the Theory of Everything? cell danger response May 01, 2016

I was spurred by the recent news release from the Open Medicine Foundation to read more about Robert Naviaux from UCSD, the lead investigator of the new metabalomics study. Dr. Naviaux published a...

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NEW Made in Alberta Clinical Practice Guidelines for ME/CFS me/cfs Apr 01, 2016

Clinical Practice Guidelines (CPG) are documents which take into account all of the published, peer reviewed medical literature and make recommendations based on that evidence.

Evidence based...

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PACE Protest cognitive behavior therapy graded exercise therapy me/cfs Dec 01, 2015

Many of you will have heard of the PACE study, a large multicentre study of Cognitive Behavior Therapy (CBT) and Graded Exercise Therapy (GET) for ME/CFS conducted in the UK. The first paper from...

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Flu Vaccination me/cfs Oct 01, 2015

We are entering flu season. I anticipate getting many questions as to my recommendations regarding whether people with ME/CFS should get the flu vaccine or not. Health Canada recommends that...

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Paper Published by Dr. Karin Olson on the nature of "fatigue" in ME/CFS me/cfs me/cfs research Jun 01, 2015

I was fortunate to have the chance to work with Dr. Karin Olson, a professor of Nursing at U of Alberta and long time CFS researcher and her graduate student Oksana Zimka testing her hypothesis of...

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Mom Needs to Lie Down (PSA) - Awareness Day May 2015 awareness day May 19, 2015

This is a 3-minute clip taken from a public service announcement produced by Taylor Leslie Cole. Dr. Stein played this at the beginning of the presentations for Awareness Day 2015.

Author: Eleanor...

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Progress in ME/CFS: Slow and Steady Wins the Race - Lucinda Bateman me/cfs me/cfs help May 19, 2015

Recorded May 19, 2015, as part of the Calgary International Awareness Day Educational Event for Myalgic Encephalomyelitis/Chronic Fatigue Syndrome, Fibromyalgia, & Multiple Chemical...

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Demystifying Popular Diets - Rory Hornstein awareness day May 19, 2015

Recorded May 19, 2015, as part of the Calgary International Awareness Day Educational Event for Myalgic Encephalomyelitis/Chronic Fatigue Syndrome, Fibromyalgia, & Multiple Chemical...

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Important Findings from the Columbia Study of ME/CFS immune function me/cfs me/cfs research Mar 08, 2015

“Distinct plasma immune signatures in ME/CFS are present early in the course of illness.”

Hornig et al Sci. Adv. 2015;1:e1400121 Feb 27, 2015

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Sea Change for ME/CFS? The NIH P2P, AHRQ and IOM Reports me/cfs Mar 01, 2015

In the past few months three important reports have been published that will impact the future (and possible even the name) of ME/CFS.

This newsletter provides a brief summary of each reports and...

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