~*Online WACOC News 2007 April 14*~

Women and Children of CFIDS
WACOC + M = Men

~*A comment or two*~

Happy Spring!

Welcome to all new readers!

Be sure to utilize keywords into the alt med fibromyalgia (AMF)
newsgroup or into other newsgroups' google search engines to help you
find information you may be seeking.

Corresponding with certain AMF members is not worth your health or the
arguementive vulgarness and dishonesties these members resort to in
their attempts to keep outsiders from remaining members at AMF...

We wanted the truth and we got the truth!

More on viruses, neurotoxins, mysterious illnesses, diseases and
syndromes...
FM ME-itits CFIDS PIV-5 GWI MCS PPS SV40 LYMES ALS SCLERODERMA LUPUS
PARKINSONS HHV Viruses AIDS CANCER NUCLEAR CONTAMINATIONS

Potential Animal (Zoonotic) Virus Identified in Patients with Chronic
Fatigue Syndrome, Multiple Sclerosis and Epilepsy
http://www.ncf-net.org/PressReleases.htm

NCF Medical Discoveries
Affecting the Worldwide CFIDS Community One Patient at a Time
http://www.ncf-net.org/Discoveries.htm

Veterans United for Truth - Vets
Help for Vets
http://www.vuft.org/vets.html

RES = Research

RES: Accelerated Brain Gray Matter Loss in Fibromyalgia Patients:
Premature Aging of the Brain?

Accelerated Brain Gray Matter Loss in Fibromyalgia Patients:
Premature
Aging of the Brain?

J Neurosci. 2007 Apr 11;27(15):4004-4007.

Kuchinad A, Schweinhardt P, Seminowicz DA, Wood PB, Chizh BA, Bushnell
MC.

McGill Centre for Research on Pain, Department of Neurology and
Neurosurgery, and Department of Anesthesia and Faculty of Dentistry,
McGill
University, Montreal, Quebec, Canada H3A 2B2, and GlaxoSmithKline,
Addenbrooke's Centre for Clinical Investigation, Addenbrooke's
Hospital,
Cambridge CB2 2GG, United Kingdom.

PMID: 17428976


Fibromyalgia is an intractable widespread pain disorder that is most
frequently diagnosed in women. It has traditionally been classified
as
either a musculoskeletal disease or a psychological disorder.
Accumulating
evidence now suggests that fibromyalgia may be associated with CNS
dysfunction.

In this study, we investigate anatomical changes in the brain
associated
with fibromyalgia. Using voxel-based morphometric analysis of
magnetic
resonance brain images, we examined the brains of 10 female
fibromyalgia
patients and 10 healthy controls.

We found that fibromyalgia patients had significantly less total gray
matter volume and showed a 3.3 times greater age-associated decrease
in
gray matter than healthy controls. The longer the individuals had had
fibromyalgia, the greater the gray matter loss, with each year of
fibromyalgia being equivalent to 9.5 times the loss in normal aging.
In
addition, fibromyalgia patients demonstrated significantly less gray
matter
density than healthy controls in several brain regions, including the
cingulate, insular and medial frontal cortices, and parahippocampal
gyri.

The neuroanatomical changes that we see in fibromyalgia patients
contribute
additional evidence of CNS involvement in fibromyalgia. In
particular,
fibromyalgia appears to be associated with an acceleration of age-
related
changes in the very substance of the brain. Moreover, the regions in
which
we demonstrate objective changes may be functionally linked to core
features of the disorder including affective disturbances and chronic
widespread pain.
http://listserv.nodak.edu/cgi-bin/wa.exe?A2=ind0704b&L=co-cure&T=0&P=6176

More regarding Ampligen...DS

Hemispherx BioPharma: Does patience pay in Pharma?
Posted Apr 12th 2007 4:05PM by Hilary Kramer
Filed under: Hilary On Stocks

Let's face it, small bio pharmaceutical companies are risky picks.
But sometimes, you can pick one up at a very low price and watch it
then develop into the next big thing in drugs and make you rich.

In December 2006, I blogged about Hemispherx BioPharma, Inc. (AMEX:
HEB), one such small, risky pick -- but one that at the time, I felt
was worth the gamble, simply because of the potential of a drug in the
wings called Ampligen. HEB was about to file for FDA approval on this
drug that has broad-spectrum anti-viral and anti-cancer properties and
treats Chronic Fatigue Syndrome, among other illness.

Aside from the promise of Ampligen, I said there was little else at
the time to recommend this company. However, its focus is a good one:
Drugs treating viral and immune-based acute and chronic disorders like
multiple sclerosis and West Nile Virus, along with AIDS, genital
warts, hepatitis C, and acute respiratory syndrome.

A reader has asked me what I think of HEB now, as it has not yet
skyrocketed upward. I wouldn't personally sell now. The process of
drug approval is notoriously slow. While Ampligen has finished Phase
III trials, according to the HEB website, approximately 500 patients
have received Ampligen in clinical trials authorized by the Food and
Drug Administration (FDA). It does note vaguely, however, that,
"Certain of these studies to date have not been well-controlled and
accordingly additional tests will be necessary for support of
regulatory approvals." I don't like the sounds of that.

What I do like the sounds of, however, is the news that HEB has
started clinical trials as part of an accelerated evaluation of
Alferon, a potential new experimental therapy for Avian Flu. We read
almost daily about the looming Avian flu health crisis, but there is
yet to be found an effective vaccine or treatment. Could this be it?
According the HEB website, the company is in discussions with the U.S.
Department of Defense regarding its biopreparedness, biodefense
initiatives and priorities.

I jumped on HEB in the $2 range, and in January it jumped up as high
as $2.47. Now the stock is floundering at $1.62 after poor year-end
results were announced. But remember, drug trials and approvals take a
long time. I could dump HEB now and absorb the loss of $.40 cents or
so, or I could hold on. At this point, I know the most I can go down
from here is by $1.62, since that is all shares are worth right now!

Type of stock: A small pharmaceutical company developing drugs for
viral and immune-based acute and chronic disorders. This is a high-
risk pick, but I still believe that HEB has potential in Ampligen, and
I'm interested to see what comes from the Alferon evaluations. Tread
very carefully, though.

Price target: When I recommended this stock in December 2006, it was
trading at around $2. Now it is at $1.63, nearing 52-week lows. I'm
not giving up yet, but am fully aware that this is going to be a hit
big or miss completely. I'll know better in the year to come and will
keep following-up with all of you.

Hilary Kramer is a financial editor and money coach for AOL and an
authority on investing. Visit her at http://www.hilarykramer.com/.

May 12 International Awareness Day will be here very soon!

Protect yourself - Learn about ME - Educate your doctors - Alert the
public

Worldwide Epidemic / Over 1 Million in U.S.

Atypical Polio, Myalgic Encephalomyelitis, Gulf War Syndrome, Vaccines
and Toxic Chemicals
Government Agencies Obscuring the Evidence
http://www.geocities.com/tcjrme/CurrentTopics4.html

Veterans United for Truth - Vets
Help for Vets
http://www.vuft.org/vets.html

Captain Joyce Riley: Gul War Syndrome
http://www.all-natural.com/riley.html

Mycoplasma and Fibromyalgia / Chronic Fatigue Syndrome
http://www.neurotransmitter.net/mycoplasma.html

As far as alt med fibromyalgia (AMF) is concerned...
"You must be the change you wish to see in the world" ~ Gandi
Estimating Chronic Fatigue Syndrome - Related Symptoms Among Nurses:

A Preliminary Report http://www.ncf-net.org/library/nurses.html

More information can be found at The Article Library of the National
CFIDS Foundation http://www.ncf-net.org/library.htm

An interesting thing happened on the road to a cure...we have run out
of trust in the CDC and CAA.
How much more harm can the CDC and CAA do?
Thats even more sad and painful than the disease itself...

There are so many voices from the FM ME-itis CFIDS PIV-5 GWI MCS PPS
SV40 LYMES ALS SCERODERMA LUPUS PARKINSONS HHV VIRUSES AIDS CANCER
NUCLEAR CONTAMINATIONS organizations and ALL RELATED ILLNESSES
worldwide how long will it take before actual research comes before
more new buildings...?

When you walk thru the storm keep your chin up high and you will never
walk alone...
Theatre Musical Carousel
by Rodgers & Hammerstein

My chin is up and I'm not walking alone...
I'll continue to post WACOC News 2007 when and as I'm able...
One must find their own road and purpose in life while one is still
alive to do so...

Research holds all our answers -- also the USA and International News
Media answers too!
http://www.ncf-net.org/Discoveries.htm

We should not only follow the $ money $ but as the NCF has shared,
follow the patents -- we all have to wonder why the patents were more
important than all the worldwide sick patients...

Times are a changing!...
Be aware, Be alert, Be safe!...

Thanks to all of you for your continued support -- keep hanging in
there each and everyone of you -- we are!

Together the patients, nurses, doctors and scientists can do it!!

Research holds all our answers!

Praying for world peace ~ No matter where in the world we live war is
not the answer!

How does a human heart hurt so deeply and still survive is beyond ME
CFIDS FM...

Pacing right along...
More and more patients, nurses, doctors and scientists are posting,
quoting, voicing years and years of ignored factual research. Also,
who's continuing to censor who...

Take time to enjoy the sunsets and sunrises...

Soft hugs to all who need them!
Diana Saba
Retired Nurse
FM ME/CFIDS
Related Neurological Disorders
CDC's Wm Reeves Must Go
Bring Back the GAO
Where did over 4 Million $'s of misappropriated funds go to?
CDC website linked NCF to Porn for over one year ~ Why?
What Ails The CDC
http://www.time.com/time/magazine/article/0,9171,1561137,00.html?inte...

Grassroots Action for Myalgic Encephalomyelitis / Chronic Fatigue
Syndrome
http://www.co-cure.org/Congressional_Action.htm

Please Support NCF's Research
http://www.ncf-net.org/NCFresearch.htm
http://www.ncf-net.org/Discoveries.htm

Please Sign Petitions
http://www.petitiononline.com/MEitis/petition.html
http://www.ipetitions.com/petition/GulfWarillness/index.html

THE TENNESSEAN Special Report
http://www.tennessean.com/special/oakridge/part3/index.shtml

Ex-FBI agent charges feds with radioactive coverup at Rocky Flats | By
Amanda
http://www.grist.org/news/muck/2005/01/21/little-rockyflats/?source=daily

May 12th Awareness Day
http://www.geocities.com/capitolhill/4277/

The HHV-6 Site
http://hhv6.freeservers.com/

The One Campaign
http://www.one.org/

Betrayal By the Brain:
The neurological basis of chronic fatigue syndrome, fibromyalgia
syndrome and related neural network disorders.
by Dr. Jay A Goldstein
http://home.vicnet.net.au/~mecfs/general/goldstein_summary.html

Letter from Bryon Hyde MD ME-NET archives -- March 2004, week 1 (#1)
http://listserv.surfnet.nl/scripts/WA.EXE?A2=ind0403A&L=me-net&P=R2

CFSAC Meeting Presentation ~ June 21, 2004
http://listserv.nodak.edu/scripts/wa.exe?A2=ind0407a&L=co-cure&F=&S=&P=541

~*I truly hope the January 2006 CFSAC meeting will be addressing our
continued efforts and concerns about our nations blood supply and FM
ME/CFIDS and all related neurological disorders*~

The January 10, 2006 CFSAC meeting did not take place
http://www.hhs.gov/advcomcfs

FM ME CFIDS Information Forum
Co-Cure Archives
http://listserv.nodak.edu/archives/co-cure.html

TCJRME
http://www.geocities.com/tcjrme/

Reading, Researching, Posting to AMF
1997-2007
http://hometown.aol.com/dgsaba/myhomepage/index.html

Type AMF Abusers into the google search engine box...
http://groups.google.com/group/alt.med.fibromyalgia/search?q=AMF+Abus...

Be safe...Be aware...Be alert...
The documented AMF Abusers thrive on new sick patients innocence...

Apparently, so does the CDC, CAA and IACFS through the CDC's sudden
press releases -- at the latest IACFS 2007 Conference hoping to boost
their memberships on the unsuspecting public and sick patients...
http://tinyurl.com/2ae4e4

"What lies behind us and what lies before us, are tiny matters,
compared to what lies within us" ~ Ralph Waldo Emerson











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