ME is not a psychiatric condition...
         Letter to the Prime Minister of the UK
         Dr. Derek Enlander    12/2009

• Blood Biomarkers for CFS:  A Light at the end of the Tunnel
  Dr. Suzanne D. Vernon,  CFIDS  09/2009
• Reeves' broadened criteria  resulted in 38% of Major Depressive Disorders being misdiagnosed as CFS.   The criteria are over-inclusive and allow patients without physical symptoms to be diagnosed with CFS.
  Evaluating the Centers for Disease Control's Empirical Chronic Fatigue Syndrome Case Definition. 2009 Jason LA, et al.  J Disability Policy Studies,  Vol. 20, No. 2, 93-100 (2009), DOI: 10.1177/1044207308325995 (PDF)
  Co-Cure  http://www.co-cure.org/Jason-10.pdf
  
• The Importance of Clinical Definitions for Defining and Studying Syndromes    
  Dr. Bruce Carruthers
  
• Comparing the Canadian ME/CFS Clincial Criteria with the Fukuda Criteria     
  Dr. Leonard Jason
  
• Lyme Disease - Lets Dispel the Myths  10/2006
  Dr. Darrel Ho-Yen
  
• Dr. De Meirleir's Conference - Review of patients' lecture   
  Marj van de Sande  
  º  Dr. De Meirleir - Highlights  [German translation]
  º  De-Meirleir-Highlights.pdf  [Danish translation]
  
• CAMDA Challenge Takes on CFS  
  2006 Critical Assessment of Microarray Data Analysis  
• Can hysteria be diagnosed with confidence 
  Dr. Elizabeth Dowsett, 25 percent M.E. Group
  http://www.25megroup.org/Information/Medical/dowsett%27s/Can%20hysteria%20be%20diagnosed%20with%20confidence.htm
  
• Redefinitions of ME
  Dr. Elizabeth Dowsett
  http://www.25megroup.org/Information/Medical/dowsett%27s/Redefinitions%20of%20ME.htm
• A Rose by any other Name
  Dr. Elizabeth Dowsett
  http://www.25megroup.org/Information/Medical/dowsett%27s/Rose%20by%20any%20other%20Name.htm
• Is Stress more than a modern buzz word
  Dr. Elizabeth Dowsett
  http://www.25megroup.org/Information/Medical/dowsett%27s/Is%20stress%20more%20than%20a%20modern%20buzz%20word.htm
  
• The Role of Laboratory Tests in Diagnosis of CFS
  Dr. Charles Lapp
  http://cfids.org/about-cfids/diagnostic-testing.asp
  
• Tests that are Helpful in Treating CFS and FMS  
  Dr. Jacob Teitelbaum
  
• The Late Effects of ME - Can They be Distinguished from Post-Polio Syndrome 
  Dr. Elizabeth Dowsett
  
• Trouble Remembering?  Testing is Now Available in Canada to Assess Cognitive Problems in ME/CFS 
  Dr. Ellie Stein
  
  
• Diagnostic Tests Resource

 
This page was last reviewed/modified on 03/2010