BOLD ACTION to me, means mobilizing our community to publicly demonstrate our deep and intense—as opposed to shallow and passive—commitment to seeing healthcare justice for people with ME. It is about bringing our issues to the forefront of public consciousness and putting strong pressure on our leaders to act. Taking…
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…
We welcome measures in the Chancellor’s Autumn statement to support disabled people with additional cost of living pressures. However, while these measures go some way to recognising... This post appeared first on Action for M.E. Read more >>
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…
ANZMES has made this PDF version available to those who wish to download for their own use. IACFS conference 2022 combined report Download This post appeared first on ANZMES. Read More >>
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…
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,…
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.…
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…
Today, Action for M.E. has joined leading Neurological charities to write a letter to Jeremy Hunt, Chancellor of the Exchequer, about how the cost of living crisis is having a greater... This post appeared first on Action for M.E. Read more >>