From the Yorkshire Post, 31 August 2011 (story by Chris Waters) Sayers has chance to confirm leadership potential THERE were times when Yorkshire batsman Joe Sayers feared he might never …
Yorkshire cricket star Joe Sayers back at the top after Post Viral Fatigue Syndrome Read More »
From the Daily Telegraph, 29 August 2011 (comment by Max Pemberton). That people feel threatened by the idea that ME has a psychological component says a lot about the stigma …
‘Protestors have got it all wrong on ME’, Daily Telegraph, 29 August 2011 Read More »
A tragic, emblematic story – but Kay delivers on a solemn promise One Last Goodbye – the Lynn Gilderdale story by Kay Gilderdale [Paperback]. Ebury Press (2011), 328 pages, price …
‘It must have been hell on earth.’ ME Essential review of Kay Gilderdale’s book Read More »
In response to Chronic fatigue syndrome researchers face death threats from militants (Robin McKie), Observer, 21 August 2011. The big issue: Extremism has no place in the quest to find …
In response to Chronic fatigue syndrome researchers face death threats from militants (Robin McKie), Observer, 21 August 2011. INTENDED FOR PUBLICATION: Sir The ME Association agrees that any form of …
Full text of ME Association response to article in ‘The Observer’, 21 August 2011 Read More »
From The Guardian Online, ‘Comment is Free, The people’s panel’ section, 26 August 2011. Four readers with chronic illness tell us how they handle the distress their condition can cause …
CFS prevalence and risk factors over time. Jason LA, Porter N, Hunnell J, Rademaker A, Richman JA. J Health Psychol. 2011 Apr;16(3):445-56. Epub 2011 Jan 11. Source DePaul University, USA. …
TGI Friday! Our latest round-up of ME/CFS research studies, 26 August 2011 Read More »
From ‘The Spectator’, 26 August 2011 (think piece by Professor Simon Wessely) Mind the gap: it’s time to stop separating psychiatry and neurology In 1987, I went to work as …
Professor Simon Wessely column | The Spectator | 26 August 2011 Read More »
From BBC News, 25 August 2011 Consumers are being warned to check packs of Nurofen Plus after it emerged that thousands could mistakenly contain antipsychotic drugs. The Medicines and Healthcare …
‘Alert over Nurofen Plus drug mix-up’, BBC News, 25 August 2011 Read More »
Transfusion, 19 August 2011. doi: 10.1111/j.1537-2995.2011.03267.x. [Epub ahead of print] Absence of xenotropic murine leukemia virus-related virus in blood donors in China. Mi Z, Lu Y, Zhang S, An X, …
‘Absence of XMRV in blood donors in China’, Transfusion, 19 August 2011 Read More »
From the Morning Star, 22 August 2011 (story by Will Stone) A private company given £100 million of public money a year to assess whether disabled people are “fit for …
‘Care firm silences its critics’, Morning Star, 22 August 2011 Read More »
From The Observer, 21 August 2011 (story by Robin McKie) Scientists are subjected to a campaign of abuse and violence The full extent of the campaign of intimidation, attacks and …
American Journal of Community Psychology © Society for Community Research and Action 2011 10.1007/s10464-011-9457-7 Original Paper Small Wins Matter in Advocacy Movements: Giving Voice to Patients Leonard A. Jason1 (1) DePaul University, Chicago, …
Letter to the Editor, The Washington Post, 20 August 2011 My illness gets overlooked I have greatly enjoyed articles in the Health and Science section on efforts by frustrated patients …
From the Weston, Worle and Somerset Mercury, 20 August 2011. Story by Bethan Evans Britta Francis, aged 32, from Blagdon, has myalgic encephalomyelitis (ME) and scoloiosis, a curved spine, which …
Friday research roundup – abstracts from some recently published papers not already highlighted on the MEA website: 1 Antibody responses against xenotropic murine leukemia virus-related virus envelope in a murine …
Our Friday research round-up – abstracts you may not have already seen here Read More »
From PLoSOne, 18 August 2011 Otto Erlwein, Mark J. Robinson, Simon Dustan, Jonathan Weber, Steve Kaye, Myra O. McClure Jefferiss Research Trust Laboratories, Section of Infectious Diseases, Imperial College London, …
From the Western Mail, 19 August 2011 (story by Madeleine Brindley) A DOCTOR who specialises in treating patients with ME and chronic fatigue syndrome has called for an inquiry into …
Private doctor attacks GMC over ‘witch hunt’, Western Mail, Cardiff, 19 August 2011 Read More »
From the Leatherhead Advertiser, Surrey, 17 August 2011 THIS year marks the 50th anniversary of the Suicide Act 1961, which decriminalised the act of taking your own life. But despite …
From the Journal of Virology, published on line ahead of print on 17 August 2011 J. Virol. doi:10.1128/JVI.00827-11 Copyright © 2011,American Society for Microbiology and/or the Listed Authors/Institutions. All Rights …
Research, another negative XMRV study, 17 August 2011 Read More »
