Simon McGrath's blogs

A list of my blogs to date:
2018

• The CMRC's new biomedical focus and big ambitions (Mar)

2017

• Mark Davis finds the strongest evidence yet for ME/CFS immune activation and hunts for the trigger (August)

2016

• The Power and Pitfalls of Omics: George Davey Smith’s storming talk at ME/CFS conference (Pt 1 of 2) (Feb)
• > The power and pitfalls of omics part 2: epigenomics, transcriptomics and ME/CFS (Feb)
• Extraordinary NIH ME/CFS study may be most comprehensive and in-depth ever (March)
  
• NIH: Solving ME/CFS will need “an army of really good researchers working together” (March)
  
• NIH aiming to commit RFA funds to ME/CFS research (March)
• NIH to patients, “We are your partners” (March)
• NIH to focus its ‘world-class’ technology and expertise on ME/CFS (#MEAction) (April)
• Professor & patients’ paper on the solvable biological challenge of ME/CFS: reader-friendly version (May)
  [Original paper: The biological challenge of myalgic encephalomyelitis/chronic fatigue syndrome: a solvable problem]
• Ron Davis: Preliminary data shows problems with energy metabolism | #MEAction (June)
  
• The UK ME/CFS biobank paves the way for bigger and better research | #MEAction (August)
• BMJ Blogs: The BMJ » Simon McGrath: PACE trial shows why medicine needs patients to scrutinise studies about their health (September)
• The PACE trial: Where “recovery” doesn’t mean getting your health back | #MEAction (December)

2015

• Surprisingly good outcomes for people who get ME/CFS after Mononucleosis (Glandular Fever) (Jan 2015)
• New era for ME/CFS research as top cytokine study attracts media headlines (Hornig/Lipkin) (March 2015)
• Red Hot researchers spice up Chilli ME Challenge — Live! (June 2015)
• With Sasha: Fluge & Mella’s pre-trial study highlights life-changing potential of rituximab (July 2015)

2014

• Gut bugs misbehaving? The microbiome and ME/CFS (Jan 14)
• Interview: Ian Lipkin’s Million Dollar Appeal for Microbiome Study (Feb 14)
• Cognitive testing causes mental exhaustion lasting days (Mar 14)
• First Direct Evidence of Neuroinflammation – ‘Encephalitis’ – in ME/CFS (Apr 14)
• Brain Cells Making us Sick? The microglia connection in ME/CFS & Fibromyalgia (May 2014)
• Part 2: Brain Cells Making us Sick? Messed up microglia could be driving symptoms (June 2014)
• New Exercise Study Brings Both Illumination and Questions (Aug 2014)
• Hunting down the cause of ME/CFS & other challenging disorders – Lipkin in London (Nov 2014)

CMRC 2014 Conference talks (as approved by researchers)

• Acute infection and post-infective fatigue as a model for CFS (Prof Andrew Lloyd)
• The neuroimmune basis of fatigue (Prof Robert Dantzer)
• Microbiology & immunology of CFS/ME and other challenging disorders (Dr Ian Lipikin)

Series of short pieces (Autumn 2014):

• Immunology in five-minute bites: T cells, cytokines and MHC

2013

• New study hints at biological roots of mental and physical problems in ME/CFS (Jan 2013)
  
• Lipkin and Hornig go hunting for ME/CFS pathogens (Feb 2013)
  
• Mady Hornig: How do you solve a problem like CFS? (March 2013)
  
• Brain fog: The Research April 2013
• Redefining ME/CFS? CDC Chief Reveals First Fruits of Multi-Center Doctor Study at FDA Stakeholder Meeting - Health Rising May 2013
  
• UK Research Collaborative means business June 2013
• Time for a Patient Revolution (July 2013)
• Repeat Test Reveals Dramatic Drop in ME/CFS Exercise Capacity (July 2013)
  
• A Dozen Different Diseases? Stephen Holgate Calls for Radical Change in ME/CFS Research (Aug 2013)
• Lipkin finds biomarkers not bugs (Sep 13)

2012

• Once Is Not Enough (June 2012) Why replication is essential in ME/CFS research