Murdoch University

Murdoch University: ME/CFS Support in Second Life

Posted: 31st March 2010

By Kirsty Best, lecturer in Communication and Media Studies. Research centres around interviews with participants from Canada and Australia about how and whether computers and the Internet help to ease some of the isolation people with ME/CFS experience due to their illness, then getting them set up in Second Life and monitoring the results.

Bond University

Academics work with locals to combat Chronic Fatigue Syndrome

Posted: 28th October 2009

Bond University and the community will team up for a revolutionary research project aiming to unearth a faster diagnosis method for the debilitating Chronic Fatigue Syndrome (CFS).

The University has put out the call for 150 locals aged 20 to 65-years-old to take part in the world-first study, made possible through a $533,000 grant from the Queensland Government’s Smart State program – the first Smart State Grant received by Bond - as well as a $90,000 National Grant from the Mason Foundation to further investigate immunological dysfunction in CFS patients.

Initial findings from this research can be accessed here: Brenu, E et al (2010) 'Immune and hemorheological changes in Chronic Fatigue Syndrome', Journal of Translational Medicine, vol. 8, no. 1.