APPG on ME: Minutes of 16 February 2011 Meeting
To view these Minutes as the original Word document, please click HERE. All Party Parliamentary Group on M.E. Chair: (Vacant) Vice-Chair: Annette Brooke MP Secretary: John Leech MP Treasurer: Martin …
Month: March 2011
M.E. Moray to feature on silver screen in highest village in the Highlands, 11 April 2011
ME and the Family from Digital Stories on Vimeo. The Screen Machine – Scotland’s own touring cinema – will be in Tomintoul, the highest village in the Highlands, to show …
APPG on ME to have private meeting with Minister to discuss NHS services
The All Party Parliamentary Group on ME has arranged a private meeting with Care Services Minister Paul Burstow in his office on Tuesday 10 May at 3pm to discuss concerns …
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MEA Ramsay Research Fund to fund new research into the role of transcription factors in ME/CFS
The ME Association is very pleased to announce that trustees have approved funding for an important new research study that will be investigating the role of what are called transcription …
Parliamentary Questions: Work Capability Assessment, 29 March 2011
From Hansard, 29 March 2011. Employment Minister Chris Grayling fielded questions on the Work Capability Assessment (WCA) in the Commons yesterday (29 March 2011) – including one on Professor Malcolm …
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‘No strength to move, too tired to sleep’ – Hunts Post, 23 March 2011
From the Hunts Post, 23 March 2011 (story by Mark Shields). IMAGINE not having the energy to get out of bed for more than an hour a day, yet being …
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Forward-ME Group: Minutes of meeting held on 1 March 2011
These Minutes are taken from the Forward-ME Group website Minutes of the meeting held on Tuesday 1st March 2011 1 pm HOUSE OF LORDS. 1. Present: Margaret Mar – Chairman …
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Caught and social – Wayne and Vivienne putting on the Ritz!
Dance legend Wayne Sleep and Vivienne Mills, chairman of the Colchester ME Support Group, pictured at the Mercury Theatre in Colchester last night (March 24) – after Vivienne went to …
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Please help us update our files on helpful travel insurers
We are going to update our information leaflet that contains feedback about helpful and unhelpful insurance companies and brokers when it comes to purchasing travel insurance if you have ME/CFS. …
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Hampshire Friends with ME hope to run three training courses
Hampshire Friends with ME hope to launch three separate, half-day training courses to introduce people to the challenges of living with ME. They are offering a three-hour ME awareness training …
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Volunteers wanted for half a day at The Mall at Cribbs Causeway, Bristol
We’re looking for volunteers who can help Liz Wood and her daughter Helen run a fundraising stall for the ME Association at The Mall at Cribbs Causeway shopping centre in …
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From bag of nerves to half marathon runner… Emily does it all for the ME Association
Emily Wren, who is recovering from Chronic Fatigue Syndrome, took part in the Reading Half Marathon on Sunday (March 20) to raise money for the ME Association. Months of concern …
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Index to articles in our quarterly membership magazine, ME Essential
Members of the ME Association receive a quarterly magazine called ME Essential. It covers our research news, and keeps members up-to-date with medical and scientific developments. It is vitally important …
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Teenager to do mountain walk to raise money for the ME Association
From the Wirral News, 22 March 2011 (story by Jane Clare). A TEENAGER who was diagnosed with ME at the age of 13 is to set aside her illness and …
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Help wanted from people with ME/CFS for study of their counselling experiences
We have been asked by Joan Crawford to help publicise a study she is undertaking as part of her MA in Clinical Counselling at the University of Chester. Joan would …
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Comparison of physical and sedentary activities in CFS and their link to autonomic dysfunction
The MEA Ramsay Research Fund has been funding Professor Julia Newton and colleagues at the University of Newcastle to carry out a separate study into muscle abnormalities in ME/CFS. This …
‘Unlocking Chronic Fatigue Syndrome’: Wall Street Journal health blog, 22 March 2011
From the Wall Street Journal health blog, 22 March 2011 (story by Amy Dockser Marcus) As scientists race to find a biological cause for chronic fatigue syndrome, long considered by …
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‘Research casts doubt on theory of cause of chronic fatigue’: Chicago Tribune, 17 March 2011
From the Chicago Tribune, 17 March 2011 (story by Trine Tsouderos). A high-profile scientific paper that gave enormous hope to patients diagnosed with chronic fatigue syndrome, and even prompted some …
XMRV: another negative study – this time in Japan
From the open-access journal, Retrovirology, 17 March 2011 No association of Xenotropic Murine Leukemia Virus-related virus with prostate cancer or chronic fatigue syndrome in Japan Rika A Furutal, Takayuki Miyazawa, …
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The actress, Louie Ramsay, has died. Her father Dr Melvin Ramsay helped found the ME Association.
Obituary in The Guardian, 16 March 2011 (words by Michael Coveney). Louie Ramsay, who has died aged 81, was a dynamic musical comedy actor who became a dramatic linchpin of …