More than anything ‘I like a good yarn’ | knitting guru Louise Wilkie talks to The Express | 29 December 2013
Knitting has helped Louise Wilkie from Glasgow cope with her ME.
Year: 2013
TGI Friday! Our weekly round-up of recently published research abstracts | 27 December 2013
From Psychosomatics, 8 December 2013. Original article Chronic fatigue in adult survivors of childhood cancer: Associated symptoms, neuroendocrine markers and autonomic cardiovascular responses Bernward Zeller(a), Ellen Ruud(a), Jon Havard Loge(b.c), …
Thank you, Wallingford School, for your magnificent cheque | 21 December 2013
The whole school did a sponsored walk for us earlier in the year. The result? A giant cheque for a giant £8,400!
A lovely result from the ME Association’s Christmas Appeal | 20 December 2013
Appeal raises almost £2,607 towards mail out of more MEA ‘ Purple booklets’
TGI Friday! Our weekly round-up of recently published abstracts | 20 December 2013
Three studies – of widely varying types – found today.
Jessica Taylor, a ‘shining star’ in the world of ME | BBC South East News | 18 December 2013
Report on Jessica Taylor and her plans for ‘Share a Star’. Dr Charles Shepherd also appears.
Ministers ‘ignored advice on inhumane fit-to-work tests’ | The Guardian | 16 December 2013
From The Guardian, 16 December 2013 (Story by Patrick Butler, social policy editor).
Report on the Evidence-Based Review of proposals to refine the Work Capability Assessment – summary and statement from the MEA | 17 December 2013
The report containing results and conclusions from the Evidence-Based Review (EBR) of the Work Capability Assessment (WCA) was published on Thursday 12 December 2013. The EBR report, which is long …
TGI Friday! Our weekly round-up of recently published research abstracts | 13 December 2013
This week – a bunch of abstracts from research groups around the world.
UK Government welcomes findings of Litchfield review of Work Capability Assessment | DWP press release | 12 December 2013
The ME Asssociation are preparing our response.
How Atos comes under pressure to declare disabled people as fit for work | The Guardian | 9 December 2013
From ‘Comment is Free’, The Guardian online, 9 December 2013 (Words by David Gillon).
Remember, remember… the MEA Christmas Appeal, 2013
Appeal stays open until 18th December. Matched funds now used up.
Researchers prepare for launch of paediatric SMILE Trial involving the Lightning Process and/or specialist medical care | 5 December 2013
From BMC Trials, 5 December 2013. (open access)
TGI Friday! Our weekly round-up of recently published research abstracts | 6 December 2013
Four abstracts found this week from studies round the world.
Man killed himself while on bail over suicide of partner | Oxford Mail | 4 December 2013
Oxfordshire Coroners Court, where the inquest was held
Mother facing council at tribunal over son’s education | Cambridge News | 4 December 2013
Jane Waters and her 16-year-old son Findlay
Ollie Cornes writes on CFS from the patient’s perspective | British Journal of General Practice | December 2013
From the British Journal of General Practice, December 2013. Out of Hours Chronic fatigue syndrome: a patient’s perspective In 1999 I contracted a throat infection that receded after many weeks, …
In Australia | new centre for neuroimmunology and emerging diseases opens at Griffith University | 30 November 2013
Professor Sonya Marshall-Gradisnik and her team
Wanted – help with survey to source safe housing materials and plants for people with Multi-Chemical Sensitivities | 29 November 2013
Adults in the UK who have disabling chemical and electro-sensitivities – conditions that sometimes overlap with ME/CFS – are being invited to take part in an online survey which is …