New Year’s honour for Pauline Donaldson, Tyne and Wear ME/CFS Support Group | 31 December 2015
British Empire Medal for South Shields ME/CFS charity worker.
Year: 2015
A very merry Christmas and a Healthier New Year from all of us at the ME Association
Our telephone helpline is open throughout the Christmas and New Year break.
Plenty of fresh blood and enthusiasm at the UK ME/CFS Biobank | 23 December 2015
Staff at the UK ME/CFS Biobank are raring to go international next year – having just appointed their first-ever biobank co-ordinator and project manager. Hayley Curran has joined the team …
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‘Living with chronic fatigue: how I wish my friends would treat me’ | Daily Telegraph | 21 December 2015
From the Daily Telegraph, Lifestyle section, 21 December 2015. By Lucy Mayhew. Bear Grylls and I have virtually nothing in common – the survival expert has a GTI turbo-charged body, …
The day The Queen remembered a very active ME/CFS group in West Sussex | 18 December 2015
Many congratulations to reMEmber, the West Sussex-based group, who have been awarded The Queen’s Award for Voluntary Service. Their director, Janice Kent, and her husband, Bill, who is group’s secretary, …
TGI Friday! Our weekly round-up of recently published research abstracts | 18 December 2015
This week – medical training in MUS, the ‘therapist effect’, brain study in childhood CFS.
Our Christmas Appeal and a huge ‘thank you’ from all of us at the ME Association | 15 December 2015
To everyone who pledged or donated to our annual Big Give Appeal to pay for a campaign on the importance of Early and Accurate diagnosis of M.E. We have raised …
IPSO record of how they resolved our complaint about the Daily Telegraph | 11 December 2015
Resolution statement atwww.ipso.co.uk/IPSO/rulings/resolution-statements/detail.html?id=59 COMPLAINT Complaint 07520-15 ME Association v The Daily Telegraph SUMMARY OF COMPLAINT 1. The ME Association complained to the Independent Press Standards Organisation that The Daily Telegraph …
TGI Friday! Our regular round-up of recently published research abstracts | 11 December 2015
From Cytokine. 2015 Nov 23;78:27-36. doi: 10.1016/j.cyto.2015.11.018. [Epub ahead of print]. Reductions in circulating levels of IL-16, IL-7 and VEGF-A in myalgic encephalomyelitis/chronic fatigue syndrome. Landi A(1), Broadhurst D(2), Vernon …
In Parliament | how many people were diagnosed with CFS in the last year?, medication for CFS | 9 December 2015
Jim Shannon, Democratic Unionist Party spokesman for Health, Transport and Equality, tabled a couple of written questions about Chronic Fatigue Syndrome for the Health Secretary. The first asked how many …
‘It’s time for doctors to apologise to their ME patients’ | Dr Charles Shepherd in the Daily Telegraph | 7 December 2015
For too long the medical community has dismissed ‘Chronic Fatigue Syndrome’ as a mental illness which can be cured with therapy and exercise. From the Daily Telegraph, 7 December 2015. …
ME Association advise on powerful ME/CFS storyline on BBC1 drama today | 4 December 2015
There was a powerful ME/CFS storyline today on the BBC1 lunchtime soap, Doctors. MEA Publicity Manager Tony Britton was asked to advise on the technical aspects of the script. He …
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TGI Friday! Our weekly round-up of recently published research abstracts | 4 December 2015
From Reviews on Environmental Health, 1 December 2015. Review of Myalgic Encephalomyelitis/Chronic Fatigue Syndrome: an evidence-based approach to diagnosis and management by clinicians. Bested AC, Marshall LM. Abstract This review …
National Institutes of Health treatment review | seven letters in Annals of Internal Medicine| 1 December 2015
The journal, Annals of Internal Medicine, published seven letters in its print edition yesterday in reply to a ME/CFS treatment review it published earlier this year. One of the letters …
Nesta the dog is woman’s best friend… | Wisbech Advertiser | 30 November 2015
From The Wisbech Advertiser, 30 November 2015. Story by Kath Sansom. Jill Dowding Walker, 56, of Whittlesey, suffers from ME, chronic fatigue syndrome (CFS) and fibromyalgia and said her canine …
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You told us what you thought about the MEA – here’s a summary of what you said | 1 December 2015
Earlier this year we set up two very similar online surveys that asked what people thought of the ME Association. One was for members of the ME Association and one …
‘Sleep’s healing balm’ | Dr James Le Fanu in the Daily Telegraph | 23 November 2015
From the Daily Telegraph, ‘The Surgery’ column, 23 November 2015 (no e-link found). Recent comments in this column on the contentious claim of the merits of positive thinking and graded …
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Nathalie Wright talks about the misery of living with ME |Huddersfield Examiner | 26 November 2015
From the Huddersfield Examiner, 26 November 2015. In this thought provoking first-person feature, 22-year-old Nathalie Wright reveals how her life has been devastated by the crippling illness ME. Nathalie grew …
Just a week to go until our Big Give Christmas Challenge | 27 November 2015
We’ll be raising money for an effective early and accurate diagnosis campaign.
UK ME/CFS Biobank Co-ordinator and Project Manager required | closing date November 27
Following approval by the MEA Ramsay Research Fund to provide just under £85,000 to fund a further two years work at the UK ME/CFS Biobank, there is now a vacancy …
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