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PLAY IT AGAIN, AND AGAIN AND AGAIN

2012-05-17T18:02:00.001-04:00

A New ME Outbreak? A group of mostly female students aged 12 to 19 in San Antonio, Texas, have come down with a constellation of symptoms physicians are terming unusual. Those symptoms include chronic fatigue, headaches, nausea, vertigo, stomach problems and seizure-like activity. In a recent news segment by San Antonio reporter Sarah Lucero, a mother of one of the girls said that one

LeRoy and Lyndonville

2012-02-01T13:02:00.005-05:00

Twelve teenage girls attending the same school in LeRoy, New York, suddenly developed tics and vocalizations—in other words, Tourette’s Syndrome. Neurologists at the nearby Dent Neurologic Institute who've “treated” several of the girls are writing them off as suffering from hysteria (couched in the sanitized “conversion disorder” to make the diagnosis palatable) and insisting that the

The Specificity of the Crazy and A Cattle Prod to the Genitals

2011-11-30T14:50:00.016-05:00

Have You Been Served? Two years ago, when Science published the first study linking the retrovirus XMRV to ME, how many of us yearned to fast forward a few years to see if Dr. Judy Mikovits’s findings would be validated and the cause of ME finally nailed, as we hankered to do 20 years earlier when Dr. Elaine DeFreitas published her landmark study linking ME to another retrovirus? This heady

JUDY MIKOVITS TURNS HERSELF IN

2011-11-29T17:10:00.000-05:00

Neuropsychiatric Versus Multisystem

2011-11-10T13:21:00.000-05:00

In an interview on the Cure Talk website, Chronic Fatigue Initiative and Columbia University researchers Dr. Ian Lipkin, who's a neurologist, and Dr. Mady Hornig, a psychiatrist, stated that ME is a "neuropsychiatric" disorder because it affects concentration, memory and the autonomic nervous system. However, Lipkin and Horig don't consider the disease psychosomatic. Labeling ME a

Rituximab, Genentech, Tony Fauci and Pertinent Pop Culture References

2011-10-28T15:35:00.025-04:00