Clinical and scientific articles and films
- Diastolic cardiomyopathy and ME/CFS. A streaming video of a three-hour talk by Dr Paul Cheney, a physician and ME/CFS researcher who argues that some ME/CFS patients suffer from a diastolic cardiomyopathy. Made available by the ME Society of America
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- Assessment and Treatment of Patients with ME/CFS: Clinical Guidelines for Psychiatrists. A report by Dr Eleanor Stein which defines the illness, explains why ME/CFS is not a psychiatric disorder, outlines how to differentiate the symptoms of ME/CFS from those of depression and anxiety, suggests a treatment approach for common psychiatric symptoms in patients with ME/CFS, and summarises psychological treatment issues.
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- New Jersey Consensus Manual for the Primary Care and Treatment of Chronic Fatigue Syndrome. A 2002 report by Dr Joseph F John Jr and Dr James M Oleske, designed to bring to the primary care physician a manual that can facilitate and enhance the care of patients with CFS. In it, a diverse group of experts in the field of CFS focus on the symptomatology of the disease and deliver a product that will be helpful to the primary care physician and specialist alike.
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- Myalgic Encephalomyelitis/Chronic Fatigue Syndrome: A Clinical Case Definition and Guidelines for Medical Practitioners. An Overview of the Canadian Consensus Document. To further assist busy medical practitioners, Dr Bruce Carruthers, principal author of the ME/CFS Consensus Document and co-editor of the FMS Consensus Document, and Marjorie van de Sande, consensus coordinator of both the ME/CFS and FMS Consensus Documents, have written and published this overview independent of any organisation.
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- Fibromyalgia Syndrome: A Clinical Case Definition and Guidelines for Medical Practitioners. An Overview of the Canadian Consensus Document by Dr Bruce Carruthers and Marjorie van de Sande.
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- The Complexities of Diagnosis by Dr Byron Hyde, Chairman, Nightingale Research Foundation. This important essay forms Chapter 3 in ‘Handbook of Chronic Fatigue Syndrome’, Leonard A Jason, Patricia A Fennell, Renée R Taylor, copies of which can be obtained from the publisher, John Wiley and Sons Inc. or from Amazon
. © 2003 by John Wiley and Sons. All rights reserved.
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- Supporting people with severe myalgic encephalomyelitis. Crowhurst G. Nursing Standard 2005; 119(21): 38–43. A review article that aims to raise nurses’ awareness of myalgic encephalomyelitis (ME). Key symptoms are presented, along with possible service responses and treatment options. It emphasises that this condition is often misunderstood but that it can be serious and more research is needed to promote better understanding of the physical symptoms.
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- Standing up for ME. An article by Dr Vance Spence and Prof. Julian Stewart in the Summer 2004 issue of Biologist examines the problems of orthostatic intolerance in CFS/ME.
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- Myalgic Encephalomyelitis/Chronic Fatigue Syndrome: Clinical Working Case Definition, Diagnostic and Treatment Protocols. Carruthers et al. Journal of Chronic Fatigue Syndrome 2003; 11: 7–115. A systematic clinical working case definition that encourages improved diagnosis of ME/CFS.
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- Interventions for the Treatment and Management of Chronic Fatigue Syndrome: A Systematic Review. Whiting et al. JAMA 2001; 286: 1360–8. A formal systematic review of the randomised controlled trial evidence for treatments for CFS.
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- Politics, science, and the emergence of a new disease: the case of chronic fatigue syndrome. Jason LA et al. American Psychologist 1997; 52: 973–83. An overview of the politics behind the science of ME and CFS.
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- Guidance on the management of CFS/ME. Action for ME.
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- Chronic Fatigue Syndrome. An informative overview on the emedicine website of CFS by Burke A Cunha, MD, Professor of Medicine, State University of New York at Stony Brook School of Medicine.
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- Chronic Fatigue Syndrome. Information on diagnosis and treatment from the Centres for Disease Control (CDC), Atlanta, USA.
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- Enteroviral myalgic encephalomyelitis — EvME [ME/CFS]. A treatise on EvME by Dr Irving Spurr who argues that “
The enteroviruses, ubiquitous in nature, are responsible for a variety of human diseases ranging from mild gastroenteritis to fulminating multi-organ failure. They are the cause of myalgic encephalomyelitis, and it is no surprise that this disease has multi-organ involvement with protean manifestation.
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