Can glandular fever lead to ME/CFS? What Kaylee McKeown’s withdrawal tells us about the risk
Reviewed by Dr Chris Armstrong, Director of the Melbourne ME/CFS Collaboration, University of Melbourne. Australian swimmer Kaylee McKeown withdrew from the 2026 Commonwealth Games in Glasgow while recovering from glandular fever, citing the risk of chronic fatigue. University of Melbourne researcher Dr Chris Armstrong, who studies the chronic outcomes of infectious disease, called it a […]
A new framework could help explain decades of conflicting hormone findings in ME/CFS and Long COVID
Reviewed by Dr Chris Armstrong, senior author and director of the Melbourne ME/CFS Collaboration, University of Melbourne. For decades, hormone studies in ME/CFS and Long COVID have produced conflicting results. A 2026 review led from the University of Melbourne offers a possible explanation: researchers may have been measuring the right system, but in the wrong […]