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In this new section we will post alerts to new research and findings. For the time being, please look at the research weblist for research collections and in the medical information weblist to search for specific items from official laboratories, medical schools etc.

Please check the submenu under "Research" for our selection of weblinks.



Smart painkillers target damaged tissue E-mail

 Imagine a painkiller that only switches on in injured tissue, leaving the rest of the body unaffected.

That is the idea behind a new class of pH-dependent drugs that interfere with nerve signals to the brain and spinal cord - but only where the tissue is slightly acidic due to injury.

Normal tissue has a pH of around 7.4, but this drops to around 7.0 in injured tissue, largely because the blood supply is disrupted, resulting in the accumulation of waste products such as carbon dioxide and a switch to anaerobic respiration, which produces lactic acid.

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NO/ONOO - Martin L. Pall PhD E-mail

Professor Martin L. Pall gave a presentation on the Nitric Oxide component and how various theories of various researchers match last monday May 7th. Diagnose Support will be making a review on his latest book "Explaining Unexplained Illnesses" where he links 14 different disorders, from asthma and cancer to CFS and FM.

Professor Pall is also paying attention to the outdated psychological and psychiatric models that are being applied unjustly to patients with illdefined disorders. By reviewing all scientific and psychogenic models there is no more room for doubt. Where Asthma and MS where once considered psychological disorders, it now seems psychologists need a new source of income, which can be the only reason they persist illdefined disorders to be theirs to treat. Even if some cases are due to psychological factors, the body's chemistry has changed, without physiological intervention, a patient will not recover. The psychological approach has not cured Asthma nor MS, and it will not cure CFS and FM. It is time for a new course of action.  click "read more" to see Quotes from Professor Pall and our evaluation on part of his book.

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Conference notes Spain, Dr. Nancy Klimas E-mail

Thursday 15 of February, of 2007, Dr.  Klimas gave a conference that was translated by the Mrs. Clara Valverde, president of the LigaME/CFS.  A review on the recent Congress of Florida was given as well. (Please open this item to print it in Spanish. Abra por favor este artículo para imprimirlo en español.)

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All the assistants agreed to accept that:  There is a genetic predispositionà there is a triggering factor (infection, toxic, etc) à That alters the endocrine, immune systems, neuroendocrin ("mediators")à which affects health in a permanent way. 
All the assistants agreed on an organic cause and nobody presented that the cause was psychological.  Regarding the patients of CFS, is not considered an homogeneous group but is believed for a fact that there are subgroups of patients, according to how the illness develops in each one the patients. 
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