Ehlers-Danlos Support UK will be marking their 25th anniversary with a residential conference in Loughborough over the weekend of 7th-9th September. The event will be held at Burleigh Court Conference …
From BBC News, 30 July 2012. The man in charge of reviewing the government’s controversial fitness-to-work benefit assessments is to stand down, the BBC’s Panorama has learned. Professor Malcolm Harrington …
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From the Wigan Evening Post, 26 July 2012 (story by Natalie Draycott). CYCLING between six of the North West’s Rugby League grounds is a tiring task, but for Wigan man …
From The Guardian, 27 July 2012 (story by Amelia Gentleman). GP applied for job with Atos assessing whether benefit applicants were fit for work, and secretly filmed his training Secret …
The highly controversial Work Capability Assessment – the gateway to obtaining Employment and Support Allowance for most claimants – will be the subject of two TV documentaries to be screened next …
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The Countess of Mar tabled a question that asked the Government why the Ministry of Defence categorises ME/CFS as a psychiatric or mental health disorder on the British Army Health …
From BBC News online, 24 July 2012. Physiotherapists and podiatrists in England are to get the right to prescribe medicines by themselves. Ministers agreed to the change in the law …
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A tribute meeting for the late Dr Betty Dowsett, who died in June at the age of 91, is to be held in Colchester on Sunday, October 28. It will …
From Current Opinion in Virology, published online 18 July 2012 (full text behind paywall). Recombinant origin, contamination, and de-discovery of XMRV Krista Delviks-Frankenberry(1), Oya Cingöz(2), John M Coffin(2), Vinay K …
The Medical Research Council (MRC) has put out a new call for ME/CFS research applications in a revised ‘highlight notice’ that went up on its website today (23 July 2012). …
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From Psychotherapy and Psychosomatics, published online 20 July 2012 (full article behind a paywall). Inflammatory and Cell-Mediated Immune Biomarkers in Myalgic Encephalomyelitis/Chronic Fatigue Syndrome and Depression: Inflammatory Markers Are Higher …
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From The Guardian, 21 July 2012 (story by Amelia Gentleman). Private firm Atos found to have just 11 audio machines to record up to 11,000 tests for benefit eligibility each …
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The Employment Minister’s thinking on the subject of the recording of work capability assessment interviews continues to be unravelled this week through a series of Parliamentary Questions. Frank Field (Labour …
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In a written question, the Countess of Mar asked the Government – further to the Written Answer by Earl Howe on 25 June – what assessment they have made of the …
From WalesOnline.co.uk, 18 July 2012 (story by Rachel Mainwearing). For the last 17 years, Michelle Penny has been crippled by chronic fatigue and pain, which has left her virtually bed-bound. …
From The Guardian, 16 July 2012 (story by Ian Semple, science correspondent). Radical shakeup of academic publishing will allow papers to be put online and be accessed by universities, firms …
The Government have no immediate plans to let Employment and Support Allowance claimants know they have right to have their medical assessment interviews recorded, Employment Minister Chris Grayling revealed yesterday …
About 18 months ago, we put out an appeal for information about companies that are willing to provide life cover to people with ME/CFS without overweighting the premiums. At the …
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Journal of Biological Dynamics. 2012 Mar;6(2):740-62. Full text available. Can persistent Epstein-Barr virus infection induce chronic fatigue syndrome as a Pavlov reflex of the immune response? Agliari E, Barra A, …
From Holdthe FontPage.co.uk, 13 July 2012 (story by Helen Lambourne). A weekly newspaper has been rapped for publishing the medical condition of a teenage girl whose friend was raising funds …
