Posts Tagged XMRV retrovirus

  • We, Tuskegee? We, Tuskegee?
    Severe ME/CFS/MCS patient Peggy Munson was hospitalized, near death, after the Ice Storm of December 11, 2008 and ensuing 3-day power outage. She remembers today, one year later.
  • Dr. Oz Features ME/CFS and XMRV Dr. Oz Features ME/CFS and XMRV
    On Thursday, December 3, Dr. Oz spoke with Donnica Moore, MD, as well as a recovered patient and shared an animation video showing how the virus incorporates itself into the DNA within our cells.
  • CFS/ME and XMRV on Doctor Oz Tomorrow CFS/ME and XMRV on Doctor Oz Tomorrow
    Dr. Mehmet Oz will be featuring CFS/ME on his talk show this Thursday, December 3, 2009. Check local listings for times.
  • Online fundraiser for severe ME/CFS and MCS sufferer Online fundraiser for severe ME/CFS and MCS sufferer
    Help Jason keep his love Nicole afloat: on "bad days" she cannot speak and can barely turn over in bed. With savings dwindling quickly, they are appealing to friends and family for help.
  • Dr. Oz show to feature CFS/ME and XMRV Dr. Oz show to feature CFS/ME and XMRV
    Mehmet Oz, M.D. will be focusing on the XMRV discovery and its implications for CFS/ME sufferers in an upcoming show. Want to share your story?
  • Fly Away to XAND-ado, or Where Is Elaine DeFreitas? Fly Away to XAND-ado, or Where Is Elaine DeFreitas?
    CFS/ME patient-activist Peggy Munson's latest missive urges other CFS/ME patients to Tweet, post on Facebook and use other accessible forms of activism to keep the XMRV conversation going.
  • “First, Do No Pharma”
    Peggy Munson, ME/CFS patient/activist, counters Mike Adams and other proponents of alternative medicine that have written off XMRV as Big Pharma conspiracy.
  • 'There's no such thing as a virus that causes CFS' ‘There’s no such thing as a virus that causes CFS’
    Mike "The Health Ranger" Adams of NaturalNews.com claims in a recent article that there is no such thing as a virus that causes CFS. Is he right?
  • The next HIV? ME/CFS and AIDS activists unite The next HIV? ME/CFS and AIDS activists unite
    by Peggy Munson | Hi Friends & fellow revolutionaries, As some of you may know, the biggest news to hit the ME/CFS community -- ever -- just dropped a couple of days ago on October 9, 2009.
  • From Chronic Fatigue to Lyme: Medically Unexplained No More From Chronic Fatigue to Lyme: Medically Unexplained No More
    by Pamela Weintraub | Over the past year, forces at the highest reaches of medicine have made ever stronger efforts to burden the sick, diseased, and infected with psychiatric labels, consigning them to often mind-numbing psych meds and untreated infection
  • Peggy Munson: ME/CFS and the Retroviral Elephant Peggy Munson: ME/CFS and the Retroviral Elephant
    In the ME/CFS community, since yesterday, there has been a swell of jubilation. This may seem odd to a lot of people considering that researchers just found something in our blood similar to HIV.
  • Breaking News: retrovirus linked to CFS / ME Breaking News: retrovirus linked to CFS / ME
    In a new groundbreaking study, retrovirus XMRV has been linked to chronic fatigue syndrome / myalgic encephalomyelitis.