Should you only be interested in learning about severe fatigue, chronic fatigue syndrome (ME/CFS) or fibromyalgia we invite you to visit: www.cfsknowledgecenter.com. It is an open access website.

The ME-CFSCommunity is reserved for those individuals who wish to learn from, and directly communicate with those who are afflicted with ME/CFS. Access to the various sections and features of the ME-CFSCommunity beyond the Main Page is limited to registered members only to protect their privacy. 

Our mission is to help members move beyond the obstacles imposed upon them. We seek to facilitate the free and open exchange of information on ME/CFS, fibromyalgia and related illnesses among those who know the most about the true impact of these afflictions.

Members easily communicate with one another individually, or in groups using FREE Live Video Chat, Instant Text Messaging, Blogs and Forums as well as other features. 

Membership is FREE and PRIVATE. Our member roster is held in the strictest confidence. It is not shared with any other organization nor used for any commercial purpose. 

You are welcome to join us. You'll find us warm and welcoming. Our community interesting, informative and supporting.

Check out InTheNews for daily updates on the latest medical news releases and other news items which may be of particular interest to the community.

• New Insight Into Aging Brains: Study Links 24% of Intelligence Changes Over a Person's Life to Genetic Factors

• What you think is going on in your head may be caused in part by what's happening in your gut

• Grant funding opportunities for ME/CFS research

• Differences in Metabolite-Detecting, Adrenergic, and Immune Gene Expression After Moderate Exercise in Patients With Chronic Fatigue Syndrome, Patients With Multiple Sclerosis, and Healthy Controls

• The Effects of Fibromyalgia Syndrome on Female Sexuality: A Controlled Study

• Development of the Mental Clutter Scale

• Effect of pregabalin on sleep in patients with fibromyalgia and sleep maintenance disturbance: A randomized, placebo-controlled, 2-way crossover polysomnography study

• Conditions comorbid with chronic fatigue in a population-based sample

• Psychophysical distress and alexithymic traits in chronic fatigue syndrome with and without comorbid depression

• Long-term infection and vertical transmission of a gammaretrovirus in a foreign host species

• Fatigue in medical residents leads to reactivation of herpes virus latency

• Genetic associations of fatigue and other symptom domains of the acute sickness response to infection

• Development and application of a high-throughput microneutralization assay: lack of xenotropic murine leukemia virus-related virus and/or murine leukemia virus detection in blood donors

• For the Overweight, Some Carbs Better than Others

This second in the series of videos featuring the noted physiologist, Kenneth J. Friedman, Ph.D., he discusses the development of biomarkers for ME/CFS. View it in our Video Section.

Noted expert, Dr. Kenneth J. Friedman, discusses the physiological aspects of ME/CFS and why it makes those afflicted feel the way they do. View it in our Video section.

This is the first of a series of videos Dr. Friedman has made for cfsKnowledgeCenter and the members of the ME-CFSCommunity.

Kenneth Friedman, Ph.D., is a member of the Board of Directors of the IACFS/ME, Associate Professor of Pharmacology and Physiology, New Jersey Medical School (retired) and a member of the Board of Advisors of cfsKnowledgeCenter.

We've re-organized our Continuing News Stories by giving each of the following articles their own page. You'll find the links to each within the InTheNews section as well as those immediately shown below.

• Multivitamins: So Many Types, So Many Labels
• New Efficiencies in Health Care? Not Likely
• How Old Viruses May Haunt Us
• The Time to Innovate is Now
• Europe's Failing Health
• The Puzzle of Chronic Fatigue

Clear insights and actionable information from widely recognized authorities are the hallmarks of the Expert Assistance series of videos produced specifically for those afflicted with ME/CFS and related illnesses.

The entire Expert Assistance video series is now available AT NO CHARGE.

View them as many times as you like. Tell your friends, and physician, about them. Both patients and medical professionals will find them an excellent, and frequently referenced, source of valuable information.

When viewing the series, we hope you will also take a moment to consider their value to your pocketbook as well as your path towards wellness. We hope that you will respond in kind and support this effort to provide you with Expert Assistance with a contribution to keep the community up and running and able to continue to produce these ground breaking videos for you.

The ME/CFS & FM Patient Survey is a blind (names withheld) research study to gather data from around the world from those afflicted with ME/CFS & FM to further research into the disease. Everyone who is afflicted with ME/CFS or FM is encouraged to take the survey.

Over 450 people have completed the study thus far. Have You? It's important that we assist the research on ME/CFS in every way we can. Please help, it takes just a few minutes of your time.
Learn more about and take the ME/CFS & FM Patient Survey

The ME/CFS Case Definition Survey is a standardized guide for clinicians and research scientists for the evaluation of the impact of various specific symptoms upon those afflicted. It is presented in conjunction with the ME/CFS research team at the University of Miami.

Dr Nancy Klimas is delighted that so far over 675 people from around the world have taken the survey. Won't you please join them?

Learn more about and take the Case Definition Survey

If you are a current or former resident of the UK who has dealt with the UK medical system, please help us to gather the data needed to work for change. To take the survey please go to the UK Group.

Got a question about ME/CFS? Be sure to Ask Dr Hyman.

Please take a minute to stop by the Store. We have a few items with which you where you can support the programs and services of the ME-CFSCommunity and make a statement about your own battle with ME/CFS.

Then, If you care to grab a cuppa coffee or tea and read a bit, or better yet, meet new friends and chat awhile . . . try our instant messaging Chat Room below or better yet, the Video Chat room where up to six people at a time from anywhere in the world can meet and talk in real time.

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Won't you please Help Us to Help You?

A click on the PayPal icon below and a willingness to help yourself and others is all it takes. Those who prefer not to make payments online may send a personal check or money order to cfsKnowledgeCenter, Post Office Box 1611, Loxahatchee, FL 33470, USA.