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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#MEAction’s BOLD Press Strategy Leads to BIG Press Payoff!

Taking BOLD ACTION with our press outreach has led to national media writing about ME. Nothing says BOLD ACTION like our press work. We are working daily to cultivate relationships with journalists and educate the press about ME, and we are seeing immense results.  In the past few weeks alone,…

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#MillionsMissing France: Rally in Bourges, Interview with Ms. Chantal Somm

#MillionsMissing France has been busy. This month, in tandem with Adapted Physical Activity Expert Gilles Thöni, the association addressed the French National Authority for Health (HAS) requesting, as they have since 2020, that the HAS focus of aspects of their diagnostics policy on Post-Exertional Malaise (PEM), a hallmark symptom for…

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Solve M.E. Experts Join National Media Tour to Raise Awareness of Long Covid, ME/CFS, and Post-Infection Diseases

Last week, two standout members of our community — Dr. Peter Rowe and Cynthia Adinig — participated in a satellite media tour (SMT) with 27 different TV and radio stations broadcasting to local audiences all over the United States.  To date, the interviews have aired to an audience of nearly…

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Members of the Scottish Parliament pledge their support for #MillionsMissing

On Wednesday 28th September, #MEAction Scotland led a successful #MillionsMissing demonstration outside the Scottish Parliament – the first time it’s been held in-person for three years. While it was in some ways a smaller event than #MillionsMissing Scotland was in 2018 and 2019, what it lacked in spectacle it made…

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Long Covid and ME/CFS Communities Gather at Capitol Protest

Solve M.E. VP of Advocacy Emily Taylor at #MillionsMissing in Washington, D.C. Solve M.E. Vice President of Advocacy and Engagement Emily Taylor recently attended the #MillionsMissing protest in Washington D.C... The post Long Covid and ME/CFS Communities Gather at Capitol Protest appeared first on Solve ME/CFS Initiative. Read More >>

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Tell HHS about your experience of healthcare discrimination

People with ME, Long COVID and other complex, chronic diseases have experienced all kinds of healthcare discrimination. Now there is an opportunity for you to share your story and urge our government to move forward with improved protections to secure access to healthcare that is free from discrimination or prejudice.…

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