Research Papers

Read the full report: The dirty truth: How  toxic cleaning products are putting Canadians at risk

The IOM proposes the illness now be called systemic exertion intolerance disease By Kristy Hoffman, CBC News, Feb 21, 2015 If you can’t pronounce myalgic encephalomyelitis (ME), you may be in the company of some health-care professionals: Information about the condition, commonly called chronic fatigue syndrome (CFS), is included in fewer than one-third of medical school …

On February 10, 2015 the Institute of Medicine of the National Academy of Sciences released a report titled “Beyond Myalgic Encephalomyelitis/Chronic Fatigue Syndrome: Redefining an Illness”.  You can read and download the report here.

Of interest to people living in Ontario:  the original work on genetic polymorphisms was done at the University of Toronto with research funding that was depleted, and never renewed.  The research was considered a tremendous advance at the time both with respect to potential biomarkers and with respect to understanding mechanisms of illness and potential …