Expert Australian ME/CFS clinicians and researchers
Run by Dr. Don Lewis, CFS Discovery is a practice that solely focuses on ME/CFS. Their treatment program involves running thorough tests to carefully discern the ways in which you are limited, then to reduce the force and affects of the limitations so that you become increasingly enabled. Dr Lewis achieves this firstly, by providing an understanding, and secondly, with the use of medications.
Australian Government National Health and Medical Research Council (NHMRC)
The National Health and Medical Research Council (NHMRC) is Australia's peak body for supporting health and medical research; for developing health advice for the Australian community, health professionals and governments; and for providing advice on ethical behaviour in health care and in the conduct of health and medical research.
For information on funding for ME/CFS over the previous ten years, click here.
Australian Rickettsial Reference Laboratory
Located at Geelong Hospital, the Australian Rickettsial Reference Laboratory provides lab testing and research on links with rickettsia and ME/CFS.
Researcher in the School of Medical Sciences, University of NSW. Prof. Lloyd's areas of interest include immunology, virology, infectious diseases, inflammation and pathology. He has had a number of articles published on CFS.
Comment: "There is now a consensus that CFS is probably a neurochemical brain disorder, albeit a reversible one. Although we still don’t know the exact nature of it." (Source: Why glandular fever doesn't exist? Whatever happened to ...chronic fatigue, glandular fever and seasonal affective disorder?, The Daily Telegraph, April 18, 2010.
Article: From the bench: Chronic fatigue syndrome.
Journal Article: Bennett B, Goldstein D, Friedlander M, Hickie I, and Lloyd A (2007) 'The experience of cancer-related fatigue and chronic fatigue syndrome: A qualitative and comparative study', Journal of Pain and Symptom Management, vol. 34, no. 2, pp. 126-135. [Abstract]
