AHMF: 1999 Sydney CFS Conference

The Challenge of Chronic Illness
A Role for • Complex Infections • Channelopathy

1999 Conference Report	Dr R Vallings
1999 Conference Report	Jill Booth, consumer report.
1999 Consumer Address	Ted Shaw
1999 Conference Materials Order Form	Available in text, audio and video formats.
1999 Conference Report Links	External sites with reports by attendees.

Preface to the Proceedings of the
Clinical and Scientific Meeting, Sydney 1999

Christine Hunter, Annette Leggo

Diagnosis and Treatment of Cell-Invasive Mycoplasmal Infections in Gulf War Illnesses, Chronic Fatigue Syndrome (M.E.), Fibromyalgia Syndrome and Rheumatoid Arthritis Patients	Prof Garth L. Nicolson, Marwan Y. Nasralla, Goerg Haier, and Nancy L. Nicholson
The Neurological Mechanism of Chronic Fatigue Syndrome	Abhijit Chaudhuri
Stealth Viruses: Nature's Biological Weapons Program	W. John Martin
The Rickettsial Approach in Treatment of Patients for CFS, Firbromyalgia, Rheumatoid Arthritis, Neurological Dysfunction	C.L. Jadin
Rickettsia and Chlamydia in Patient Psychopathology - 98 CFS and 79 Other: A Diagnositc and a Therapeutic Report	Phillippe Bottero
Chronic Fatigue and Infectious Diseases	Bernie Hudson
Mycoplasma - Cause, Co-factor or Commensal in CFS	Bill Paspaliaris
Superannuation and Insurance Issues for People with Chronic Fatigue Syndrome	John Berrill
The Precautionary Principle, CFS Investigative Research and Patient Support Regimes in Litigious Times	Simon R. Molesworth
RNaseL Dysfunction Disorder (R.E.D.D.) in CFS	K. De Meirleir, I. Campine, P. De Becker, E. Van Steenberge, C. Bisbal, T. Salehzada, B. Lebleu, C.V. Herst
Symptoms and Signs in a Large Cohort of Belgian CFS Patients	P. De Becker, I. Campine, K. De Meirleir
Correlation between Immunophenotyping and Bronchial Hyper-responsiveness	K. De Meirleir, P. De Becker, C. Demanet, I. Campine and W. Vinken
Predicting Physical Disability in Patients with Chronic Fatigue Syndrome	P. De Becker, I. Campine, E. Joos, K. de Meirleir.
Usefulness of a Readaption Program in Patients with Primary Fibromyalgia and CFS Patients with Concomitant Fibromyalgia	P. De Becker, I. Campine, E. Joos, K. De Meirleir
Blood Transfusion and Chronic Fatigue Syndrome	K. De Meirleir, P. De Becker, I. Campine
Case Presentations	Richard Scholoeffel
Medical Diagnosis, Suicide and Chronic Fatigue Syndrome	M.G. King
Serum Potassium and Hormone Response to Exercises in Chronic Fatigue Syndrome	R. Burnet, G. Scroop, B. Chatterton, Bu Yeap
Biochemical Abnormalities in Chronic Fatigue Syndrome	Phillip Clifton Bligh, Suzanne Niblett, Leigh Hoskin, R Hugh Dunstan, Greg Fulcher, Neil McGregor, Julie Dunsmore, Timothy K Roberts, Henry L Butt, Katrina King, Iven Klineberg
Chronic Pain and Protein Turnover in Polysymptomatic Patients	Neil McGregor, High Dunstan, Henry Butt, Tim Roberts, Iven Klineberg, Phillip Clifton-Bligh, Greg Fulcher, Julie Dunemore, Leigh Hoskin
An Examination of the Interrelationship between Infection, Psoas Muscle Damage and Dysautonomia: The Adelaide Brisbane Serendipity Syndrome (ABS Syndrome)	A. Breck McKay, John Whiting, Aileen Jefferis, Linda Bennetts, Jacqueline M. McKay, M. Sarah-Jane McKay
Hypercitricemia in Chronic Fatigue Syndrome	Alex Young
Prevalence of Coxiella burnetii in Chronic Fatigue Syndrome	Bernhard Liedtke, Bill Paspaliaris
Is CFS/FM Due to an Undefined Hypercoagualbe State Brought on by Immune Activation of Coagulation? Does Adding Antiboagulant Therapy Improve CFS/FM Patient Symptoms?	D Berg, LH Berg, J Couvaras