Monthly Archives: February 2013

Coverage

Thank you, everyone, for your comments on my Public Citizen story. I’ve heard from you on the blog, email, Facebook and Twitter. Thanks! We are still awaiting a formal response from the Acting General Counsel of HHS. I will share … Continue reading

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A Public Citizen

When I wrote about the CFS Advisory Committee’s creation of a High Priority Recommendations document and how their process violated their own charter, many people asked me “What can we do about it?” Today, I can finally tell you what … Continue reading

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Ampligen is Not AZT

In recent weeks, some ME/CFS advocates have been calling for NIH to conduct a clinical trial of Ampligen based on the reasoning that NIH conducted trials of AZT during the early years of the AIDS crisis. Unfortunately, this analogy does … Continue reading

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On the Shelf

I recently read Spillover by David Quammen, a book about human diseases that originate in animals. ME/CFS is not mentioned in the book, but a passage about the origin of HIV struck very close to home. Quammen describes how HIV … Continue reading

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