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5/8/2008 |
Read BRF's
follow-up letters to NIAID Directory Anthony Fauci,
Representative Neal (D-Mass) and Representative Tauscher (D-CA). |
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4/27/2008 |
Read the
letter from the
Honorable Richard E. Neal (D-Mass) who wrote to support his
constituent's request for a specific NIH Funding Opportunity
Announcement (FOA) for clinical research into Blastocystis
infection, and to add Blastocystis to the Blastocystis to the
Category B pathogen list. |
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4/27/2008 |
Medscape reports on Center for Digestive Diseases
3-drug
combination treatment for Blastocystis infection. |
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4/12/2008 |
Neurologically active proteases identified in
patients with chronic gastrointestinal illness of unknown cause (IBS
and inflammatory bowel disease). Read about it in the
New Scientist Article.
Scientists, reporting in the Journal of Clinical Investigation,
reproduce symptoms of widespread pain in mice using tissue taken
from colonic biopsies of IBS patients. |
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4/7/2008 |
Testimony from
BRF concerning potential role of Blastocystis infection in
chronic gastrointestinal illness of unknown etiology in soldiers
returning from the Middle East was presented at this meeting of the
Research Advisory Committee on Gulf War Illness. |
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3/10/2008 |
Blastocystis infection in IBS featured in UK
Journal, Gut Reaction |
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09/01/2007 |
BRF awards
Best Paper Prizes for 2006
to Blastocystis Researchers |
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06/18/2007 |
BRF and Maryland-based Clongen Inc.
announce availability of
first commercial PCR assay for detection and phylogenetic
analysis of Blastocystis
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06/10/2007 |
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03/01/2007 |
Ken Boorom, Director of Blastocystis Research Foundation,
testifies before
the Oregon State Legislature's Health Policy Committee in favor of making
Blastocystis a reportable infection. Letters of support are
presented from
physicians in Corvallis, and patients provide testimony as well.
Transcript of testimony. |
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02/14/2007 |
KVAL-TV broadcast a story on Blastocystis
infection (click here for MPG video
- 30 Megabytes)
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02/12/2007 |
Representative Sara Gelser introduces bill into Oregon State
Legislature to require
the state health department to track Blastocystis infections the same way
similar
infections are tracked (click
here for the text of the bill)
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01/14/2007 |
Gazette Times publishes article on Blastocystis infection in
Oregon.
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11/15/2006 |
Oregon State University announces its
Blastocystis
Research Project.
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10/15/2006 |
Blastocystis Research Foundation releases
Legislator Fact Sheet for Blastocystis.
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09/30/2006 |
Announcement of the
publication of clinical reference on Blastocystis.
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08/27/2006 |
Blastocystis Research Foundation publishes
first newsletter.
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06/16/2006 |
Blastocystis Research Foundation announces
goals.
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