On Thursday, 6th December, the ME Association will begin its annual Christmas Appeal and we ask you to look kindly on us this year. If you’ve ever known your doctor …
Our ‘Big Give’ Christmas Appeal will begin on 6 December 2012 Read More »
David Brady, Conservative MP for Altrincham and Sale West – questions about tissue donation by ME/CFS/PVFS sufferers and clinically validated studies of gamme retrovirus infections. The Countess of Mar – …
Parliamentary Questions | David Brady MP, Countess of Mar | 27 November 2012 Read More »
The Countess of Mar tabled a question that asked the Government whether the refusal by researchers to publish trial data on recovery rates and positive outcome rates specified in their …
Parliamentary Question | PACE Trial, publication of data | 26 November 2012 Read More »
The 18,000 townsfolk of Marlow-on-Thames will have MEA medical adviser, Dr Charles Shepherd, all to themselves – if they care to tune into their community radio station, Marlowfm97.5, at 10.15am …
Marlow-on-Thames nabs our medical adviser | Marlowfm97.5 | 10.15am, Tuesday 27 November Read More »
From The Independent on Sunday, 25 November 29012 (story by Sanchez Manning). A British psychiatrist should be stripped of an award, fellow scientists said last night, as one of the …
‘ME: bitterest row yet in a long saga’ | Independent on Sunday | 25 November 2012 Read More »
Original article in the International Journal of Clinical and Experimental Medicine, 20 November 2012. Targeting mitochondrial dysfunction in the treatment of Myalgic Encephalomyelitis/Chronic Fatigue Syndrome (ME/CFS) – a clinical audit …
From The Lancet, 24 November 2012 (words by Alison Snyder). Epidemiologist who led controversial studies of chronic fatigue syndrome. Born on March 27, 1943, in San Francisco, CA, USA, he …
MEA medical adviser Dr Charles Shepherd was interviewed by Caroline Lavender for a feature in the Daily Telegraph on 26 November 2012. Photo by John Lawrence ME isn’t ‘all in …
Daily Telegraph interview with Dr Charles Shepherd | 26 November 2012 Read More »
From BMJ Open, 19 November 2012. A preliminary prospective study of nutritional, psychological and combined therapies for myalgic encephalomyelitis/chronic fatigue syndrome (ME/CFS) in a private care setting. Arroll MA, Howard …
The Countess of Mar expressed a withering contempt this week for the results of the £5m PACE Trial which, according to supporters in its early days, would set ‘the gold …
by Dr Charles Shepherd, medical adviser to the ME Association, who was present at the DWP press conference yesterday (20 November 2012). Along with members of Professor Malcolm Harrington’s Fluctuating …
From Guardian.co.uk, 20 November 2012 (story by Amelia Gentleman). Professor Malcolm Harrington calls for improvements to eligibility assessments for sickness benefit to be implemented more swiftly Too many people still …
From BBC News, 21 November (story by political reporter Justin Parkinson). The firm carrying out fitness-for-work assessments for the government lacks disabled access at a quarter of its premises, MPs …
Work test centres ‘lack disabled access’ | BBC News | 21 November 2012 Read More »
Following the recent reports of abusive behaviour and even alleged death threats against academics working on ME/CFS research, the Countess of Mar tabled a question asking what was Government policy …
Parliamentary Question | police protection for M.E. researchers | 19 November 2012 Read More »
From the Journal of Neurology, Neurosurgery and Psychiatry, 17 November 2012 Unity of opposites? Chronic fatigue syndrome and the challenge of divergent perspectives in guideline development Charlotte Smith, Simon Wessely …
Words by NICKI STRONG Twenty Year 5 and 6 pupils from North Ealing Primary School braved the rain after school on Monday 12th November to raise money for the M.E. …
Another stunning selection of slides shown to the Newry and Mourne ME and FM Support Group’s big conference in Northern Ireland on Sunday, 11 November 2012. Click on the link …
Dr Charles Shepherd’s slide presentation to the Newry conference on 11 November 2012. Read More »
To view recent a slide presentation by our medical adviser, Dr Charles Shepherd, that was given to the AGM of Network MESH in West London on 23 October, please click …
Slides from Dr Charles Shepherd’s talk at the recent AGM of Network MESH, West London Read More »
From the blogsite of the Northern CFS/ME Cinical Network, 15 November 2012. by Zoe Gotts, PhD Student, Northumbria Centre for Sleep Research (NCSR) This is a really exciting time to …
From the Proceedings of the Mayo Clinic, 8 November 2012. Prevalence, Incidence, and Classification of Chronic Fatigue Syndrome in Olmsted County, Minnesota, as Estimated Using the Rochester Epidemiology Project Ann …
