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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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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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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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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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Are Fibromyalgia & Chronic Fatigue Syndrome Actually Small Fiber Polyneuropathy? fibromyalgia Jan 01, 2015

Fibromyalgia Neuropathic Pain

For background on how we have thought about Fibromyalgia pain for the past decade go to Session #7 in my manual “Let Your Light Shine Through”. There I...

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Sharing Photography by ME/CFS supporter Justin Smith me/cfs support art Aug 01, 2014

The picture above was taken by local photographer and ME/CFS supporter Justin Smith. It is of the Langevin Bridge in Calgary being lit Blue/Green and Purple the evening of May 12th. His pictures...

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Dental Care with Complex Chronic Diseases- ME/CFS, FM and MCS awareness day me/cfs research oral health May 04, 2014

Recorded May 4, 2014, as part of the Calgary International Awareness Day Educational Event for Myalgic Encephalomyelitis/Chronic Fatigue Syndrome, Fibromyalgia, & Multiple Chemical Sensitivity....

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