The Minutes archive for the Forward ME Group is held at www.forward-me.org.uk/Minutes.htm. Forward ME Minutes of the Meeting held in the Television Interview Room House of Lords Tuesday 2 July …
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The MEA have pledged £50,000 to support a UK clinical trial into Rituximab – following the news that Norwegian researchers now have government funding for a phase-3 clinical trial. And …
From Science Daily, 26 July 2013. Many experts believe that chronic fatigue syndrome (CFS) has several root causes including some viruses. Now, lead scientists Shara Pantry, Maria Medveczky and Peter …
From the Journal of Clinical Microbiology, 17 July 2013 [Epub ahead of print]. High Coxiella burnetii DNA load in serum during acute Q fever is associated with progression to a …
From the The Royston Crow, 25 July 2013 (Story by Lucy Ross-Millar). A paint shop supervisor who developed a life-long chronic illness after being exposed to high levels of chemicals …
UK CFS/M.E. Research Collaborative Executive Board Teleconference meeting Summary of discussion 19 July 2013 Present: Professor Stephen Holgate (SH), Southampton University – Chair Dr Esther Crawley (EC), Bristol University – …
The ME Association are to take part in an online ME/CFS and Fibromyalgia clinic being hosted by the ultra-busy NHS Choices website next month. The clinic – which is expected …
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From The Independent, 22 July 2013 (story by social affairs correspondent Emily Dugan). More than 40 per cent of the assessments carried out on disability benefit claimants by the back-to-work …
The world’s biggest online ME/CFS forum, which has a huge following in North America, is to have the secrets of its success analysed by a pair of British academics. Phoenix …
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From the Journal of Psychological Medicine, August 2013. CORRESPONDENCE Editorial note Unusually for Psychological Medicine, we publish below six letters concerning the paper by White et al (2013) on the …
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From the International Journal of Pediatrics, vol. 2013, Article ID 270373, 5 pages, 2013. doi:10.1155/2013/270373 (open access) Research Article – CFS in Children and Adolescent: Ten Years of Retrospective Clinical Evaluation …
ME Association trustees have agreed funding of £31,000 for a study aimed at providing objective evidence of post-exertional malaise by looking at the effects of exercise on immune system function …
MAY BE REPOSTED This is a summary of key points to emerge from two meetings of The ME Association (MEA) Board of Trustees. The meetings took place in Dorking on Monday …
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“Do we want to see doctors seeing ill patients or do we want to see doctors seeing patients who are not ill but simply want to undertake some form of appeal letter?” – Dr Charles Allanby, Bro Taf LMC
Brief exchange during health questions in the House of Lords on 11 July 2013. Health minister Lord Howe was taking questions on the anorexia and bulimia nervosa eating disorders. The …
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From the Journal of Workplace Health and Safety, 24 June 2013.[Epub ahead of print]. From Expert Opinion on Therapeutic Targets, 9 July 2013. [Epub ahead of print]. The role of …
There will be an opportunity next week for people living in Cornwall to find out what has happened to their specialist NHS service for ME/CFS since the retirement two years …
STATEMENT FROM THE ME ASSOCIATION Unlike the situation with XMRV, where The MEA took a very cautious and sceptical approach from the very beginning, we have consistently maintained that the …
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From the Prestwich and Whitefield Guide, 5 July 2013. Story by David Thomson. PATIENTS from Bury have been helping University of Manchester researchers to develop new resources for those with …
Story by Richard Brooks A teenager whose writing skills have secured her a three-book deal worth almost £100,000 with the publisher of the Harry Potter series has described how penning …
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