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National and International Print Media Coverage
2009 Coverage 2009 Coverage
A writer for The Korea Times pens “Chronic Fatigue Syndrome Rising,” a brief article about the illness that includes information from the CDC. (11/02/09)http://www.koreatimes.co.kr/www/news/nation/2009/11/113_54739.html Christian publication The Lookout publishes “Always Tired,” an article that profiles the struggles of several CFS patients. It provides basic information from the CDC about the illness and tips for coping. (10/18/09) http://www.lookoutmag.com/articles/articledisplay.asp?id=726 The Association for Computing Machinery’s journal Queue publishes “Metamorphosis: the Coming Transformation of Translational Systems Biology.” The article notes “In the future computers will mine patient data to deliver faster, cheaper healthcare, but how will we design them to give informative causal explanations? Ideas from philosophy, model checking, and statistical testing can pave the way for the needed translational systems biology.” The authors, including Association-funded researcher Bud Mishra, use CFS as an example of an illness that will benefit from their work: “building a software tool that is primarily focused on understanding disease etiologies; interrelations among various diseases; relations of a disease to polymorphisms, biomarkers, and pathways; and, finally, approaches to use this knowledge to select diagnostics, prognostics, and therapeutics for patients in a personalized manner and with high precision.” (10/12/09) http://queue.acm.org/detail.cfm?id=1629775 A story published on the Science Express website of Science magazine outlines the “Detection of an Infectious Retrovirus, XMRV, in Blood Cells of Patients with Chronic Fatigue Syndrome” by researchers at the Whittemore-Peterson Institute, the National Cancer Institute and the Cleveland Clinic. They reported that 67 percent of 101 CFS patients tested positive for infection with xenobiotic murine retrovirus (XMRV), a gammaretrovirus associated with a subset of prostate cancer. Only 3.7 percent of 218 healthy subjects tested were positive for the virus. These important results provide evidence of the association of at least a subset of CFS cases with retroviruses, a hypothesis formed in the mid-1980s and pursued by several independent research groups. The findings have generated enormous coverage, with mention in nearly 475 publications and websites, including: (10/08/09) http://www.google.com/hostednews/ap/article/ALeqM5g7NceWUe3azfALQd57xz8WEMnPbwD9B74L1O4 ABC News/Good Morning America Health (10/19/09)The October 2009 issue of Health magazine includes CFS in a list of “7 Women’s Health Problems Doctors Still Miss.” Although it focuses on hormonal imbalances, the short mention includes information from the public awareness campaign. (10/09) Yoga Journal quotes from the CDC in an article titled “Rest for the Weary” that describes CFS and how yoga can be a helpful treatment for some sufferers. (6/27/09) http://www.yogajournal.com/health/124 “Senator to DoH: Act on ‘fatigue syndrome’” includes basic facts about CFS as it describes efforts by Philippine Senator Miriam Defensor-Santiago to raise awareness about the disease from which she suffers by filing a bill encouraging the country’s Department of Health (DoH) to research on the disease and determine how many people were suffering from it. (The Philippine Daily Inquirer) (The Philippine Islands) (4/30/09) http://newsinfo.inquirer.net/breakingnews/nation/view/20090430-202354/Senator-to-DoH-Act-on-fatigue-syndrome This article was reprinted inThe Edmonton Journal publishes “Chronic fatigue sufferers largely ignored: Patient-funded studies search for blood test to diagnose complex condition.” The article explores CFS and includes details from the CDC as well as interviews with patient Greg Dust and CFS researcher Gordon Broderick, one of the Association’s recent grant recipients. (Canada) (3/30/09) http://www.edmontonjournal.com/Health/Chronic+fatigue+sufferers+largely+ignored /1442882/story.html This article was reprinted inIn “Are you sick and tired of being sick and tired?,” an article about general fatigue, The Tenerife News says that, “A small number of people suffer from prolonged, severe and disabling tiredness for which there is no clear cause. This is sometimes called myalgic encephalomyelitis (ME) or Chronic Fatigue Syndrome (CFS). Doctors now recognise that this is an illness although they know less about the causes and treatment than with many other problems.” (Canary Islands) (1/08/09) http://www.tenerifenews.com/cms/index.php?option=com_content view=article id=10392:are-you-sick-and-tired-of-being-tired&catid=36:health-and-beauty&Itemid=124 |
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