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Whitehouse Update - 9 weeks of no response regarding the issue of the DEA crackdown on doctors that prescribe pain medication. It appears that the creme de la creme of your government does not care one iota about you - the citizens and taxpayers - who are actually responsible for the continuation of this abuse by your unresponsive government. Most ironic - no?
INTRODUCTION Red Blood Cell (RBC) Morphology is described in several papers and speeches that have been presented by the progenitor of research into this topic. The URLs for these papers and speeches are shown at the end of this article. The principal researcher of this topic - the Morphology of red blood cells, Dr. Les Simpson, is a Chronic Fatigue Syndrome (CFS) researcher in New Zealand who has presented lectures and papers about his theories on the abnormalities of red blood cells in CFS patients. CFS is one of the Neuropathies of the Peripheral Nervous system. Dr. Simpson has found that the shape of the patient's red blood cells affects their passage through the narrow capillaries of the micro-vascular system by making these cells flexible so that they are able to fit through a capillary with a diameter smaller than that of the red blood cells. HISTORY OF THE STUDY Dr. Simpson's involvement with Myalgic Encephalomyelitis (ME) began in 1984 when he suggested that the plethora of symptoms and the variability of presentation, could be due to some unexplained impairment in blood-flow. This was investigated by means of a blood filtration technique. In a 1986 publication he presented the first record of blood flow problems in ME. As MS is also associated with tiredness and easy exhaustibility on exertion, the same techniques were employed to show that blood from a patient with MS was also poorly filterable. This information was published in 1987. This led to the use of scanning electron microscopy of immediately fixed red blood cells to ascertain if there was some visible explanation for poor blood filterability. The results of that initial study were published in 1989 and led to the technique of red blood cell shape (morphology) analysis. |
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