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http://www.mecfscentre.org/mythbusting/question-6f
From MacDonald, L. (2008, Spring 2008). The Science of CFS: CFS Myth-busting Quiz 2008. Quest: National ME/FM Action Network Newsletter, 77.
http://www.mecfscentre.org/mythbusting/question-6f
6. ME/CFS is being researched in universities and clinics worldwide, to the same extent as diabetes, cancer and AIDS.
Answer: False
Canada
At the time of writing (March 2008) there appears to be only one Canadian university research project underway directly related to ME/CFS, and it is not funded by Canadian sources. This important University of Calgardy ME/CFS exercise physiology study comes to $8,500 (Canadian dollars) and was funded by ME research UK, a group dedicated to promoting biomedical research for ME/CFS (www.meresearch.org.uk). One of two or three indirectly ME/CFS-related Canadian studies is of the molecular structure of the molecule RNase-L, known to be important in ME/CFS impairments. This Canadian-funded study comes to $81,000 over the coming 5 years, and will study other molecules related to other illnesses at the same time. The coming generation of Canadian university immunologists, physiologists, neuroscientists and genetics researchers has few mentors or role models for ME/CFS within the Canadian medial research system.
The world
From 1995-2004, approximately 200 ME/CFS publications were produced, worldwide, each yearwith the vast majority of studies coming out of the US and England. Given the remarkable discoveries that have come from such research, it is astounding that such numbers have not steadily increased.
Some authors have suggested that this stagnation is directly related to lack of support from government.
Amount of research compared to other illnesses
How does ME/CFS research compare to that of other illnesses?
From January 2002 to May 2006, searching Medline publications online, Dr.
Vance Spence, presenting at the Energising ME Research international conference in May 2007, found:
783 ME/CFS articles (i.e. articles primarily focusing on ME/CFS)
6.231 MS articles
48,110 Diabetes articles
ME/CFS is at least three times more common than MS in Canada, even using conservative estimates.
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http://www.mecfscentre.org/mythbusting/mythbusting-references
Current CFS Funding in Canada for biomedical/physiology research -by source
CIHR (Canadian Institute for Health Research): Sicheri, Frank. Structure function analysis of dual function protein kinase-RNAse signaling proteins.
Samuel Lunenfeld Research Institute, Mt Sinai Hospital, Toronto, Canada.
Operating grant - 2007-08: $81,206.
ME Research UK: Kinesiologist Dr. Brian MacIntosh and clinical psychiatrist/CFS clinician and researcher Dr. Ellie Stein. Repeated Exercise Capacity in women with CFS/ME. (CAD) University of Calgary, Alberta.
Research grant: $8,500.
Answer: False
Canada
At the time of writing (March 2008) there appears to be only one Canadian university research project underway directly related to ME/CFS, and it is not funded by Canadian sources. This important University of Calgardy ME/CFS exercise physiology study comes to $8,500 (Canadian dollars) and was funded by ME research UK, a group dedicated to promoting biomedical research for ME/CFS (www.meresearch.org.uk). One of two or three indirectly ME/CFS-related Canadian studies is of the molecular structure of the molecule RNase-L, known to be important in ME/CFS impairments. This Canadian-funded study comes to $81,000 over the coming 5 years, and will study other molecules related to other illnesses at the same time. The coming generation of Canadian university immunologists, physiologists, neuroscientists and genetics researchers has few mentors or role models for ME/CFS within the Canadian medial research system.
The world
From 1995-2004, approximately 200 ME/CFS publications were produced, worldwide, each yearwith the vast majority of studies coming out of the US and England. Given the remarkable discoveries that have come from such research, it is astounding that such numbers have not steadily increased.
Some authors have suggested that this stagnation is directly related to lack of support from government.
Amount of research compared to other illnesses
How does ME/CFS research compare to that of other illnesses?
From January 2002 to May 2006, searching Medline publications online, Dr.
Vance Spence, presenting at the Energising ME Research international conference in May 2007, found:
783 ME/CFS articles (i.e. articles primarily focusing on ME/CFS)
6.231 MS articles
48,110 Diabetes articles
ME/CFS is at least three times more common than MS in Canada, even using conservative estimates.
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http://www.mecfscentre.org/mythbusting/mythbusting-references
Current CFS Funding in Canada for biomedical/physiology research -by source
CIHR (Canadian Institute for Health Research): Sicheri, Frank. Structure function analysis of dual function protein kinase-RNAse signaling proteins.
Samuel Lunenfeld Research Institute, Mt Sinai Hospital, Toronto, Canada.
Operating grant - 2007-08: $81,206.
ME Research UK: Kinesiologist Dr. Brian MacIntosh and clinical psychiatrist/CFS clinician and researcher Dr. Ellie Stein. Repeated Exercise Capacity in women with CFS/ME. (CAD) University of Calgary, Alberta.
Research grant: $8,500.