It is with great regret that the MEA has learnt of the premature death of Niccola Simpson, a sufferer since 1987, and a trustee from 2001 to 2003. We understand …
With regret, we announce the death of former MEA trustee Niccola Simpson Read More »
Information provided to the ME Association by Dr Charles Lapp – Hunter Hopkins Centre, Charlotte, USA.
Journal of Internal Medicine, Volume 267, Number 4, April 2010 , pp. 394-401(8) A new research paper, published in the Journal of Internal Medicine, provides further evidence of an abnormality in …
Further research into muscle abnormalities in ME/CFS: Journal of Internal Medicine Read More »
BBC West Midlands radio should be covering ME/CFS in a feature on the Joanne Malin programme at 11am today. Listen Again Move the cursor in the time bar to 1.34.40into …
ME feature on BBC West Midlands radio this morning – 29 March 2010 Read More »
We are pleased to be supporting an online petition launched by Amanda Skinner, from Edenbridge in Kent, which is calling for more chairs to be provided in shops.
This is a summary of key points to emerge from three meetings of The ME Association Board of Trustees. These meetings took place at our Head Office in Buckingham on …
Summary of March 2010 meeting of the ME Association Board of Trustees Read More »
The role of the new British Association for CFS/ME (BACME) in the training of the next generation of doctors and healthcare professionals in ME should be examined by the All …
‘Parliamentarians should examine role of new NHS training forum for ME/CFS’ Read More »
From the Derby Telegraph, 17 March 2010. SHE has been through too much to be counting her chickens – but athlete Ellie Stevens hopes 2010 could be the season in …
Back on the track – Derby athlete talks about her recovery from ME Read More »
From BBC Online, 18 March 2010 Greater use of hypnotherapy to ease the symptoms of irritable bowel syndrome would help sufferers and might save money, says a gastroenterologist.
From next month, the old Med 3 and Med 5 will be replaced by a new ‘fit note’. Dr Nerys Williams goes through the implications of the change and gives …
‘How the sick note is changing’ – PULSE, 15 March 2010 Read More »
From the Hampstead and Highgate Express, 18 March 2010 (Story by Tan Parsons) A woman who has sufered from ME for 18 years has made an impassioned plea to NHS …
Homeopathy on the NHS – ‘Please don’t cut funding to treat my ME’. Read More »
From our quarterly ME Essential magazine, Spring 2010 The ME Association is to co-fund the second stage of the ME/CFS brain and tissue bank feasibility study, together with Action for …
Start of next stage of the ME/CFS brain and tissue bank feasibility study Read More »
Press release issued by the Wellcome Trust, 10 March 2010 A study published in the journal ‘Retrovirology’ has failed to find evidence of a link between chronic fatigue syndrome and …
Another study fails to find link between CFS and XMRV virus Read More »
This is a brief personal summary of the last meeting of the current APPG on ME before the General Election takes place, almost certainly on May 6.
From the Eastern Daily Press, 11 March 2010 (story by Victoria Nicholls) People suffering from ME across Norfolk and Suffolk face a further wait for new services, after health bosses …
Further delay in the appointment of an ME consultant in Norfolk and Suffolk Read More »
Failures by the NHS in many parts of the country to deliver adequate services to children and adults with ME/CFS, lack of training for doctors and poor performance by the …
Hansard source The Health Secretary has been asked to give reasons why people with ME may not donate blood. The request came in a written question from David Drew, Labour …
Question in Parliament: people with ME and blood donation Read More »
There was an item about ME on the BBC Look East programme this evening (Tuesday, 9 March 2010).
The minutes of the last meeting of the US Federal Chronic Fatigue Syndrome Advisory Committee – held on 29-30 October 2009 – are now available.
Local group OMEGA (Oxfordshire ME Group for Action) today launches a competition open only to artists living or working the county which aims to raise the profile of ME/CFS.
