Choose your top ten ME/CFS research priorities – UK survey launched

Take the survey The ME/CFS Priority Setting Partnership (PSP) is giving you the opportunity to define your top ten priorities for future ME/CFS research. In partnership with the James Lind Alliance, the ME/CFS Priority Setting Partnership is launching their second survey today. The research questions in this survey are based…

Continue ReadingChoose your top ten ME/CFS research priorities – UK survey launched

Statement from Forward-ME on NICE Roundtable

After NICE held its roundtable to discuss the new ME/CFS guideline, Forward-ME (which #MEAction UK is a member of) have produced the below statement. Clinician and Patient Support Confirmed for new NICE Guideline on ME/CFS. On Monday, Forward-ME and member charities attended a roundtable to review the new ‘NICE guideline…

Continue ReadingStatement from Forward-ME on NICE Roundtable

Is NIH blowing another opportunity to advance ME/CFS research?

Be sure to attend the telebriefing by the Trans-NIH ME/CFS Working Group this Friday (10/22) at 3PM ET. The National Institutes of Health (NIH) has many questions to answer about its lack of tangible progress or strategic acceleration of medical research for people with ME. Read Our Questions for NIH…

Continue ReadingIs NIH blowing another opportunity to advance ME/CFS research?

“The treatment of ME has been Dickensian” – NICE’s roundtable on the ME/CFS guideline

After NICE's roundtable, Janet Sylvester tells us: “I felt this was a positive meeting. There were large areas of agreement from all attendees, including all acknowledging the terrible experiences people with ME have had to endure. Together, the representatives from ME patient organisations were able to strongly get across the…

Continue Reading“The treatment of ME has been Dickensian” – NICE’s roundtable on the ME/CFS guideline

Stanford study enrolling now

Who: Ron Davis’s lab at Stanford University is conducting a functional microbiome study in collaboration with Harvard University and Vassar College. They are looking for severely Ill, primarily bed-bound patients within the United States to participate. What: Participants will be asked to provide a one-time fecal swab which can be…

Continue ReadingStanford study enrolling now