Persimmon
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Does anybody know what's going on with the double-blinded, placebo controlled Valcyte study by Dr Montoya, Dr Kogelnik et. al. ?
In spite of periodic whispers that publication is immanent, it's now been something like 4 1/2 years since they finished collecting data. Dr Montoya presented his results at the 6th International Conference on HHV-6 & 7, in June 2008. Presumably he's been trying to get the study published since late 2007 or early 2008. That's more than 4 years.
We all know that researchers have difficulty getting ME/CFS articles published in peer-reviewed journals, but Dr Montoya managed to get his preliminary ME/CFS Valcyte study published in a much shorter period, and the RCT should (logically) be a much easier study to get published.
Maybe he's trying to get it published in a prestigious journal?
In spite of periodic whispers that publication is immanent, it's now been something like 4 1/2 years since they finished collecting data. Dr Montoya presented his results at the 6th International Conference on HHV-6 & 7, in June 2008. Presumably he's been trying to get the study published since late 2007 or early 2008. That's more than 4 years.
We all know that researchers have difficulty getting ME/CFS articles published in peer-reviewed journals, but Dr Montoya managed to get his preliminary ME/CFS Valcyte study published in a much shorter period, and the RCT should (logically) be a much easier study to get published.
Maybe he's trying to get it published in a prestigious journal?