To test an attribution-emotion model of reactions to chronic fatigue syndrome/myalgic encephalomyelitis, 30 significant others of 30 adult patients with chronic fatigue syndrome/myalgic encephalomyelitis were administered a semi-structured interview about their beliefs regarding the patient's illness and completed questionnaire measures of distress and behavioural responses to the patient. Spon...

The possibility that acute disseminated encephalomyelitis (ADEM) and epidemic myalgic encephalomyelitis ('epidemic neuromyasthenia') may share a common pathogenesis is examined and many factors common to the two diseases are described. It is suggested that further study of ADEM may help our understanding of epidemic myalgic encephalomyelitis.

Sir, Apparently 'sterile' pyuria defined as the presence of more than 10 white cells MI-' of uncentrifuged urine with no growth on a primary isolation medium after overnight aerobic incubation is not an uncommon finding in children. Little attention has been paid to its significance and many laboratories no longer undertake urine microscopy, regarding culture as the only relevant test for infec...

conclusions our methods will allow us to determine the prevalence of pediatric cfs and me status in the general community. results we provide two case studies showing the types of data we are collecting, and how the data are being used to inform diagnostic decisions. objectives in the present study, we describe an ongoing nih-funded study which will answer basic epidemiologic pediatric issues f...

Wise reports that general practitioners might be under-reporting long covid in patient records.1 Approximately 25% of people infected with SARS-CoV-1 developed debilitating fatigue and other symptoms met diagnostic criteria for myalgic encephalomyelitis (ME) or chronic syndrome (CFS) continued more than four years.2 So patients who have had …

It is instructive to review a brain (lipid) hypothesis put forward by the late Professor David F. Horrobin (6 October 1939 – 1 April 2003) regarding the aetiology and potential treatment of post-viral fatigue syndrome,whichnowadays would be subsumed under the heading of myalgic encephalomyelitis (or chronic fatigue syndrome). Horrobin suggested that abnormalities in fatty acids played a key rol...