Dr Charles Shepherd, medical adviser to The ME Association, has contributed the first page in a two-page feature on this illness in the June edition of the public policy review …
A £1million grant has been awarded to the UK ME/CFS BioBank by the US National Institutes of Health – for immunological and genetic studies over the next three years that …
MEA welcomes £1m grant awarded to the UK ME/CFS Biobank | 28 June 2013 Read More »
From the Action for ME website, 28 June 2013. Tributes have been paid to writer and broadcaster Deric Longden, who wrote a best-selling book about his wife’s M.E., who has …
Death of award-winning writer Deric Longden | from Action for ME website | 28 June 2013 Read More »
We are sorry to learn of the death of Professor John Davies, who was medical director of the private fibromyalgia and ME/CFS clinics in London, Bristol and Newport and had …
Funeral service for Professor John Davies | Raglan, Monmouthshire, Monday 1st July Read More »
From the Journal of Psychosomatic Research, 3 June 2013. Differences in physical functioning between relatively active and passive patients with Chronic Fatigue Syndrome Desirée C.W.M. Vos-Vromans, Ivan P.J. Huijnen, Albère …
From the Health News Ireland website, 25 June 2013. (Story by Rory Halford). Rory Hafford talks to Tom Kindlon, Assistant Chairperson of the Irish ME/CFS Association, about the systemic failure …
‘The fight of his life’ | Health News Ireland | 25 June 2013 Read More »
The Work4ME co-operative in Scotland, which links people with long-term conditions to freelance and self-employment opportunities, has teamed up with Timewise Jobs to advertise vacancies round the UK on the …
Work4ME open their new jobs billboard – with the help of Timewise Jobs | 26 June 2013 Read More »
Laurence Robertson, Conservative MP for Tewkesbury, tabled this question: To ask the Secretary of State for Work and Pensions what assessment he has made of the adequacy of training in …
Parliamentary Question | Atos Healthcare training in ME/CFS | 24 June 2013 Read More »
From the South Wales Argus, 25 June 2013. BARELY a year ago, Natasha Trew-Burns was working full-time in a nursing home. Now the 28-year-old, from Bassaleg, but living in Newport, …
This ruling can be accessed at the PCC website HERE. Complainant Name: The Countess of Mar Clauses Noted: 1 Publication: The Lancet Complaint: The Countess of Mar complained to the …
Press Complaints Commission ruling | The Countess of Mar v The Lancet | 2 May 2013 Read More »
These minutes may also be read at www.forward-me.org.uk/14th%20May%202013.htm FORWARD-ME Minutes of the meeting held in the Television Interview Room, House of Lords Tuesday 14 May 2013 Present: Countess of Mar …
Forward ME Group | Minutes of meeting in House of Lords | 14 May 2014 Read More »
From The Daily Record, Scotland, 24 June 2013. Story by Keith Mcleod. Fury as boss of Atos gets £280k pay rise while thousands of Scots are plunged into poverty by …
Scottish fury at huge pay rise for Atos boss | Daily Record | 24 June 2013 Read More »
From the Daily Telegraph Online, 23 June 2013. Story by Naomi Whittingham. Emily Collingridge fought valiantly to publicise the extreme form of ME from which she died Exactly a month …
Emily didn’t ‘only’ have ME | Daily Telegraph Online | 23 June 2013 Read More »
From the Letters Page, ‘Frontline’, journal of the Chartered Society of Physiotherapy, 19 June 2013. GET REAL With reference to your discussion on graded exercise therapy (GET), in response to …
Letter on Graded Exercise Therapy and ME | ‘Frontline’ journal | 19 June 2013 Read More »
From The Scotsman, 21 June 2013 (story by Susan Mansfield). IT IS one thing to dream about sailing across an ocean in your own yacht. But it’s quite another to …
An Atlantic crossing – with M.E. always in the background | The Scotsman | 21 June 2013 Read More »
From the Journal of Psychosomatic Research, 3 June 2013. Differences in physical functioning between relatively active and passive patients with Chronic Fatigue Syndrome Desirée C.W.M. Vos-Vromans, Ivan P.J. Huijnen, Albère …
Tom Clarke (Labour MP for Coatbridge, Chryston and Bellshill) tabled two questions for the Secretary of State for Work and Pensions on the subject of CFS and the Atos back-to-work …
Parliamentary Questions | CFS and back-to-work assessments | 19 June 2013 Read More »
The ME Association’s submission to the House of Commons Health Committee Inquiry into the Management of Long-Term Health Conditions was entered on the record when the first evidence session was …
A quickening in the pace of academic endeavour on behalf of people with ME/CFS is reflected in the Summer edition of ME Essential that has today been delivered to MEA …
From the Londonderry Sentinel, 17 June 2013. ATOS Healthcare is rejecting requests for home assessments even if a claimant’s GP supports one. Asked “why Atos Healthcare can refuse a home …
