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Emeritus Professor Warren Tate
In 2010, Emeritus Professor Warren Tate was awarded New Zealand’s premier science and technology honour, the 2010 Rutherford Medal. He is a Fellow of the Royal Society of New Zealand and of the New Zealand Institute of Chemistry. He has been a Fellow of the Alexander von Humboldt Foundation of Germany, and an International Research Scholar of the Howard Hughes Medical Institute of the United States.
In this video Emeritus Professor Warren Tate discusses the current research into ME/CFS and Long COVID that his team is doing in New Zealand
Chris Armstrong and the Hunt for the Metabolic Underpinnings of ME/CFS
Chris Armstrong PhD (biochemistry and molecular biology) was there at the beginning of the metabolomics field in chronic fatigue syndrome (ME/CFS). In fact, Armstrong was the lead author of the first ME/CFS metabolomics study published in 2012. Chris Armstrong and...
Research Update on Fibromyalgia (FM), 2021
Research Update on Fibromyalgia (FM), 2021 The Third International Virtual Congress on Fibromyalgia was held in June 2021. Eleanor Stein MD FRCP(C) was there and captures the essence of this new research. She states that latest research discusses Neuroplasticity and...
Graded Exercise Therapy and Cognitive Behavioural Therapy is OUT!!!
NICE have published their new #MECFS guidelines! Extracts from the Science for ME press release... "The National Institute for Health and Care Excellence (NICE, UK) has today, Friday 29 October 2021, published the guideline for #MyalgicEncephalomyelitis (or...
Final NICE ME/CFS Guideline Published
The National Institute for Health and Care Excellence (NICE) has now published its ME/CFS guideline. ME Action gives us the lowdown:
Over a third of COVID-19 patients diagnosed with at least one long-COVID symptom
37% of people had at least one long-COVID symptom diagnosed in the 3-6 month period after COVID-19 infection. The most common symptoms were breathing problems, abdominal symptoms, fatigue, pain and anxiety/depression. This new study from the University of Oxford and...
Advances in Understanding the Pathophysiology of Chronic Fatigue Syndrome (2019)
A great deal more is known today than 35 years ago about the underlying biology of ME/CFS. It is clear that many biological measurements clearly distinguish patients with ME/CFS from healthy control individuals. At the same time, some areas of ME/CFS research remain a...
Metabolic features of chronic fatigue syndrome
Metabolic features of chronic fatigue syndrome (2016) by Naviauxa, R. J. et al. Chronic fatigue syndrome is a multisystem disease that causes longterm pain and disability. It is difficult to diagnose because of its protean symptoms and the lack of a diagnostic...
RNZ: Long Covid short on Research
https://www.rnz.co.nz/programmes/the-detail/story/2018807667/long-covid-short-on-research From The Detail, 5:00 am on 12 August 2021 "Otago University’s Christchurch campus will look at 3,000 New Zealanders to see if they have been exposed to Covid and have developed...
Stuff: East Auckland physician’s quest to demystify debilitating illness
Howick physician Rosamund Vallings speaks to Meghan Lawrence about her new book The Pocket Guide to Chronic Fatigue Syndrome/ME. Full article can be found here: Stuff: East Auckland physician's quest to demystify debilitating illness
ME/CFS/FM Coronavirus Vaccine Side Effects Poll
The ME/CFS/FM Coronavirus Vaccine Side Effects Poll Update + the New Severely Ill Vaccine Side-Effects Poll Note the poll can be taken online and has been taken to find out how other people with ME/CFS and/or FM fared with their coronavirus vaccination in Health...
Long covid and vaccines
With governments worldwide under pressure to ease pandemic restrictions as vaccination rates rise and impatience with border restrictions grows, new threats become clearer....
The costs of long Covid
With governments worldwide under pressure to ease pandemic restrictions as vaccination rates rise and impatience with border restrictions grows, new threats become clearer....
YT: The Why, When and How of Pacing
This Video is useful for explaining pacing and understanding how to use pacing as a tool. This is a long, but good video - so please pace yourself through watching it. It's not overstating the fact to state that PACING is the singular most important management...
Stillness
Information sourced by Neurochild Community (18/7/2020). Science is now showing that stillness may be just what we need to regenerate our exhausted brains and bodies. The demands of modern life put a significant burden on the prefrontal cortex of the brain, which is...
Covid-19
NZ Covid Vaccine Below is some general advice on the Covid-19 Vaccine which Dr Ros Vallings spoke about during her presentation at the public talk held in Hamilton last month for the launch of CCIS Waikato. The entire meeting will be available on Video soon. Experts...
ME Association: COVID VACCINES AND ME/CFS
ME Association - based in the UK. May 2021 Update Having endured all the restrictions imposed by the COVID-19 pandemic for well over a year, we are now in a position where the country is slowly returning to some form of normal life. This is mainly due to the rapid...
Fibromyalgia muscle study suggests Mitochondria link:
Fibromyalgia research for many years has noted a change in the muscle tissue and this is being linked with more recent research on mitochondria function. Could the two be linked? These are the questions that Cort Johnson from Health Rising explores in this article...
Pathway to Prevent / Improve the Treatment of Deadly COVID-19 Infections Revealed in EpicGenetics-Funded Study of Thousands of Fibromyalgia Patients
LOS ANGELES--(BUSINESS WIRE)--A recently published study of thousands of fibromyalgia patients illuminates a pathway to preventing the life-threatening pneumonia, lung damage and immunologic complications that can be caused by a COVID-19 infection, according to...
Scoop: Long COVID In New Zealand – Expert Q&A
Scoop report into Long-Covid in New Zealand - 29/4/2021 - click to access the full article Emeritus Professor Warren Tate, biochemist, molecular biologist and ME/CFS expert, Brain Health Research Centre, University of Otago, comments: “In this pandemic, long COVID...
ME/CFS new information for General Practitioners.
There has been a flurry of activity in the media recently with Prof. Warren Tate, Dr Rosamund Vallings and others speaking with the media about new research in ME/CFS. The interest of the media has been piqued by Long Covid Syndrome which Dr Vallings suggests maybe...
Simply Living
I have been reading and thinking about slower living and how I can live a simpler lifestyle. I have been pondering on how to simplify routines and live a more peaceful existence. My first baby step is to stop writing to do lists, this seems so counterintuitive to me...
Dr Rosamund Vallings on Covid long-haulers and CFS-ME
Dr Vallings tells Nine To Noon that there are always people who will suffer long-term effects from a viral illness and it’s come to the fore because of the widespread nature of Covid-19. Dr Vallings on Radio New Zealand
Stuff: Kiwi researchers prove chronic fatigue syndrome is not psychosomatic
The Otago University Emeritus Professor has been on a 30-year crusade to learn more about the mysterious illness which struck his daughter Katherine at the age of 14. Original Article:...
NZ Doctor – Proof Chronic Fatigue Syndrome not psychsomatic
Media release from the University of Otago Original Article: https://www.nzdoctor.co.nz/article/undoctored/proof-chronic-fatigue-syndrome-not-psychsomatic
Chronic fatigue syndrome poorly recognised in NZ despite evidence
Original article appeared in the Otago Daily Times on 24 November 2020: https://www.odt.co.nz/news/dunedin/chronic-fatigue-syndrome-poorly-recognised-nz-despite-evidence Chronic fatigue syndrome has still not been well recognised by New Zealand health professionals or...
ME Association: Reducing the risk of Infection
In November 2020 the UK-based ME Association put together a very practical 10 point guide for people with ME/CFS to reduce the risk of infection of Covid-19. This FREE leaflet is all about staying safe during the pandemic and reviews personal hygiene measures, social...
A neuro-inflammatory model to explain the onset, symptoms, and flare-ups of ME/CFS
This article summarises ideas and a model to explain ME/CFS published in the Journal of Primary Health Care (2019) by Angus Mackay. Mackay writes from the perspective of being a long-term sufferer and researcher of ME/CFS. Mackay explains the onset, symptomology and...
Current and emerging pharmacotherapy for fibromyalgia
New Fibromyalgia research reviewed https://www.hindawi.com/journals/prm/ Roie Tzadok and Jacod N. Ablin of the Department of Internal Medicine H, Tel Aviv Sourasky Medical Centre and Sackler School of Medicine, Tel Aviv University, Tel Aviv, Israel published the...
Perspectives of people living with CFS on the use of technology as a self management technique
An article Cherie (Field Officer Rotorua Lakes) recommends is a research on perspectives of people living with CFS on the use of technology as a self management technique of CFS. Very interesting reading. Patient Perspectives on Self-Management Technologies for...
Solid Ground at Last? Cytokines Make Good in Major ME/CFS Review
Elizabeth recommends this excellent research article by Cort Johnson. The immune system in chronic fatigue syndrome (ME/CFS) has been kind of like a mirage in the desert. Given the way the disease starts and its symptom presentation – so close to the “sickness...
Metabolic features of chronic fatigue syndrome (2016)
Metabolic features of chronic fatigue syndrome (2016) by Naviauxa, R. J. et al. Edited by Ronald W. Davis, Stanford University School of Medicine, Stanford, CA, and approved July 13, 2016 (received for review May 11, 2016) Chronic fatigue syndrome is a multisystem...
Radio interview on Chronic Fatigue Syndrome with Dr Ros Vallings
On Wednesday 2nd August Jesse Mulligan interviewed Dr Ros Vallings on Chronic Fatigue Syndrome, its impact, what causes it and what you need to know.
Chronic Fatigue Syndrome is a Biological Illness
Researchers at the Center for Infection and Immunity at Columbia University’s Mailman School of Public Health identified distinct immune changes in patients diagnosed with chronic fatigue syndrome, known medically as myalgic encephalomyelitis (ME/CFS) or systemic...
