{"id":181,"date":"2024-02-02T10:00:18","date_gmt":"2024-02-02T10:00:18","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/cureme.lshtm.ac.uk\/?p=181"},"modified":"2024-04-28T18:37:30","modified_gmt":"2024-04-28T18:37:30","slug":"join-our-research-healthy-controls-needed-for-our-hhv-6-study","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/cureme.lshtm.ac.uk\/index.php\/2024\/02\/02\/join-our-research-healthy-controls-needed-for-our-hhv-6-study\/","title":{"rendered":"Join our research: Healthy controls needed for our HHV-6 study"},"content":{"rendered":"\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">Are you interested in contributing to ME\/CFS research and making a meaningful impact on the lives of those affected by this debilitating condition? If so, we invite you to become a healthy control participant in our Human Herpesvirus 6 (HHV-6) Study.\u00a0<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\"><strong>What is the HHV-6 Study?<\/strong>\u00a0<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">Our research team is embarking on a study designed to explore the association and temporal relationship between HHV-6 DNA concentration and the severity of ME\/CFS. Herpesviruses are of interest to researchers in the ME\/CFS community due to their potential to affect the immune system and overall health. By participating in this study, you can play a crucial role in advancing our understanding of ME\/CFS and its potential links to HHV-6.\u00a0<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\"><strong>How can I help?<\/strong>\u00a0<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">We are actively seeking healthy individuals <strong>aged 18-59<\/strong> to participate in our HHV-6 Study as healthy controls. Your involvement is crucial to helping us uncover answers.&nbsp;&nbsp;<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">As a participant in the HHV-6 Study, you will receive specially designed packages for saliva collection, allowing for non-invasive and convenient biological sample collection. Over six months, you will return these samples for analysis.&nbsp;&nbsp;<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">Additionally, you will be asked to complete weekly symptom questionnaires online using our new CureME participant portal.&nbsp;<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\"><strong>How to get involved<\/strong>:<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\"><span style=\"text-decoration: underline;\">Registration is currently closed.<\/span><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Are you interested in contributing to ME\/CFS research and making a meaningful impact on the lives of those affected by this debilitating condition? If so, we invite you to become a healthy control participant in our Human Herpesvirus 6 (HHV-6) Study.\u00a0 What is the HHV-6 Study?\u00a0 Our research team is embarking on a study designed [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paid_content":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[1],"tags":[11,10],"class_list":["post-181","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-uncategorized","tag-recruitment","tag-research-study"],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/cureme.lshtm.ac.uk\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/181","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/cureme.lshtm.ac.uk\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/cureme.lshtm.ac.uk\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/cureme.lshtm.ac.uk\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/cureme.lshtm.ac.uk\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=181"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/cureme.lshtm.ac.uk\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/181\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":182,"href":"https:\/\/cureme.lshtm.ac.uk\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/181\/revisions\/182"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/cureme.lshtm.ac.uk\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=181"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/cureme.lshtm.ac.uk\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=181"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/cureme.lshtm.ac.uk\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=181"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}