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ME/CFS AUSTRALIA (SA) INC

Registered Charity 698

Mailing address:
GPO Box 383,
Adelaide,
South Australia 5001

Office:
266 Port Road,
Hindmarsh,
South Australia 5007
Ph: (08) 8346 3237
('834 MECFS')

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Wednesdays, 10am-3pm

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(Mondays and Thursdays,
10am-3pm)
Ph: (08) 8346 3237

SA country callers:
Ph: 1300 128 339
(local call)


FIBROMYALGIA HELP:
Contact
Fibromyalgia SA
at the
Arthritis Foundation of SA
118 Richmond Road,
Marleston 5033
Ph: (08) 8379 5711

ME/CFS Australia (SA) Inc supports the needs of sufferers of Myalgic Encephalomyelitis, Chronic Fatigue Syndrome and related illnesses. We do this by providing services and information to members.

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Report by John Duley
Where to now? (by Dr Michael Barratt)

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CFS researchers conference

June 3-4, 2005

Professor Kenny De Meirleir was the keynote speaker at a two-day workshop of leading CFS researchers and clinicians at the University of Adelaide on June 3-4.

Many members attended a public meeting on June 2. There, Prof De Meirleir gave a rapid-fire and highly technical report on the most recent findings on the causes of and treatments for CFS. During that meeting and the forum, one message emerged: this is a condition with organic causes which researchers are now beginning to understand. It is not a psychiatric or psychosomatic condition.

To help general readers make sense of what was a very technical discussion at the forum, the Society has asked the experts attending it to provide short reflections on what they got out of it. Here are the first of them:

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Report by John Duley
John Duley is a specialist in purine and pyrimidine metabolic diseases at Mater Hospital, Brisbane.

Where to now?
By Dr Michael Barratt.
Dr Michael Barratt runs a large pathology laboratory in NSW and is a member of the Board of the Alison Hunter Memorial Foundation. (The Adelaide forum was only held because of the driving energy of Christine Hunter of the Foundation.)

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