From the Los Angeles Times, 29 September 2010 (Story by Trine Tsouderos of theChicago Tribune) It’s been a year since the journal Science published a paper linking a retrovirus called …
Chronic fatigue and XMRV – what one researcher (who’s been there) has to say Read More »
From Quest Community Newspapers, Australia, 30 September 2010 (Story by Kasey Twidale). The Australian Red Cross Blood Service has indefinitely suspended donations from sufferers of Chronic Fatigue Syndrome (CFS), following …
Australian Red Cross suspends blood donations from people with CFS Read More »
In the Sunday Telegraph this week, their ‘LifeCoach’ panel of three health and fitness experts answered a question from a reader about ME. Jane George emailed the paper to ask: …
Three experts discuss ME – Sunday Telegraph, 26 September 2010 Read More »
Robin A Weiss, professor of viral oncology at University College London, has entered the big debate on XMRV virus, Murine Leukaemia Viruses and their possible connection with ME/CFS, with a …
‘A cautionary tale of virus and disease’ – online Journal of Biology, 27 September 2010 Read More »
Further to the Statement issued by The ME Association and The Young ME Sufferers Trust about the proposed study of the Lighting Process in children. The two charities followed up …
Lightning Process: further short statement from the MEA and Tymes Trust Read More »
From CommunityCare.co.uk, 10 Seoptember 2010 (Story by Vern Pitt) Thousands of people could be stripped of their incapacity benefit under Treasury plans to introduce means testing. Sources within the Treasury …
Thousands more could be stripped of incapacity benefit Read More »
This is a summary of key points to emerge from two routine meetings of The ME Association Board of Trustees.These meetings took place at our Head Office in Buckingham on …
Summary of MEA Board of Trustees meetings held in September 2010 Read More »
From the Daily Mail, 8 September 2010 The debilitating condition ME, often dismissed as all in the mind, is caused by a virus, new evidence suggests. Children with the illness …
‘Experts find virus link to ME in children’ – Daily Mail, 8 September 2010 Read More »
From The Times, 8 September 2010 (Story by David Lee) New evidence which shows that ME – an illness which leads to physical and mental exhaustion – is caused by …
From BBC Online, 7 September 2010 (story by Eleanor Bradford, BBC Scottish health correspondent) A study on children has found further evidence that ME, or Chronic Fatigue Syndrome, could be …
Study shows ME/CFS ‘virus link’ found in children Read More »
Story by Nikki Abela Mercieca Chronic fatigue syndrome sufferers are unable to donate blood as studies have raised the possibility that the condition may be linked to a virus.
Having been led to believe that the proposed review of the 2007 NICE guideline on ME/CFS would be starting in August 2010 The ME Association wrote to NICE to seek …
It is being reported today in Linkmagazine (issue 39, September 2010) that: Data collected for the one-year follow up of the PACE trial is currently being analysed in preparation for …
Results of the PACE trial to be published in October? Read More »
The Scottish Good Practice Statement on ME-CFS (SGPS) was published on Wednesday September 1 on the Scottish Health Department’s website, Scottish Health On the Web as three downloadable documents: Scottish …
In response to the announcement that an independent review of the WCA (a key part of the Employment and Support Allowance) was to take place, The ME Association has prepared …
From the Yorkshire Post, 2 September 2010 (Story by Chris Waters) YORKSHIRE batsman Joe Sayers is suffering from an illness that left him so tired he could barely walk up …
Yorkshire cricketer Joe Sayers suffering from Post Viral Fatigue Syndrome Read More »
This is a new short documentary film (in two parts) about Laura Fursland, a promising young music student who developed ME following an episode of glandular fever, with complications, at the …
McCarrick Films: two-part documentary ‘All About ME’ Read More »
On 4 August 2010 The ME Association and The Young ME Sufferers Trust (Tymes Trust) issued a joint statement that expressed a number of concerns about the proposal to carry out a feasibility study, …
Lightning Process: further statement from ME Association and Young ME Sufferers Trust Read More »
