Een hart voor ME 2022

Een hart voor ME 2022 Voor het 5e jaar op rij verkoopt 12ME verse hartenwafeltjes om het wetenschappelijk onderzoek naar de ziekte myalgische encefalomyelitis/chronisch vermoeidheidssyndroom (ME/CVS) een duwtje in de rug te geven. De wafeltjes worden ambachtelijk gemaakt aan de hand van een geheim familierecept. We presenteren ze in feestelijke…

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What Primary Care practitioners need to know about the new NICE guideline for myalgic encephalomyelitis/chronic fatigue syndrome in adults

Caroline Kingdon’s new paper on the NICE guideline for ME was co-written with #MEAction UK volunteer Adam Lowe, as well as Charles Shepherd of the ME Association and Luis Nacul of the London School of Tropical Medicine.  As members of the NICE guideline development committee, the authors wrote this paper…

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Nieuw ME/CVS-onderzoek in Duitsland

Nieuw ME/CVS-onderzoek in Duitsland Hoopvol nieuws voor patiënten met myalgische encefalomyelitis/chronisch vermoeidheidssyndroom (ME/CVS). In Duitsland investeert de overheid 10 miljoen in een nieuw netwerk dat medicijnen gaat testen voor ME/CVS. Dat meldt het Charité, de universiteitskliniek van Berlijn, in een persbericht. Onder leiding van professor dokter Carmen Scheibenbogen wordt een…

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Solve M.E. & Community Partners Denounce Misleading New York Magazine Article

The article published in NY Magazine on Nov 4, 2022, “Has Long COVID Always Existed? The pandemic might not have spawned a new chronic illness but rebranded an old one,” was a disappointing step back 30 years to a time when the science of post-viral conditions was young. Back then,…

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#MEAction Response to NY Magazine’s Egregious Article on ME and Long COVID

New York Magazine’s Intelligencer published an fallacious article last week about Long COVID and ME/CFS in which the author, Jeff Wise, paternalistically argues that graded exercise therapy (GET) and cognitive behavioral therapy (CBT) can successfully treat patients if only the ME and Long COVID communities were open to this possibility.…

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Solve M.E. Ramsay Researchers Make Strides in Understanding Immune System Reactions that Lead to Chronic Diseases

Solve M.E. supports research into the underlying causes of ME/CFS and Long Covid through the Ramsay Research Grant Program, an open, peer-reviewed competition for grants to support pilot studies and data analysis. The Ramsay Program has been successful in attracting new scientists to the field of ME/CFS, providing much-needed funding…

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