A new section for "Illnesses of Unknown Etiology" in the Journal of Translational Research

[A.B.]

We are delighted to announce a new section in the Journal of Translational Medicine, ‘Illnesses of Unknown Etiology’. This section aims to provide a translational medicine forum for the publication of research on illnesses, multisystem diseases and syndromes of unknown etiology. Examples of these include Myalgic Encephalomyelitis/Chronic Fatigue Syndrome and Fibromyalgia Syndrome.

The focus on multisystem diseases of unknown cause highlights not only the immediate need in medicine to research the origin of an unknown disease with multiple symptoms, but also the necessity to find novel ways to diagnose and discriminate diseases that have no clear etiology but represent a dramatic reality affecting large populations of patients.

It's nice to be taken seriously!

Read the editorial here (ME/CFS is mentioned a lot): https://translational-medicine.biomedcentral.com/articles/10.1186/s12967-017-1293-6

 

[Cheesus]

Wow! Judging by the rest of the article, they could have quite simply named the section "ME/CFS". This is great.

 

[Denise]

@A.B. thanks for posting this.
I hope the articles they publish will help us all!

 

[A.B.]

@A.B. thanks for posting this.
I hope the articles they publish will help us all!

This recent article was placed into this new section "illnesses of unknown etiology":

The European ME/CFS Biomarker Landscape project: an initiative of the European network EUROMENE
https://translational-medicine.biomedcentral.com/articles/10.1186/s12967-017-1263-z