A well-known tapestry and textiles worker in North Somerset will be opening her studio in Weston-super-Mare for the next few days as part of the North Somerset Arts Week – …
Pulling out the stops for our research fund at North Somerset Arts Week | 30 April 2015 Read More »
Volunteers can be seen in either Norwich or London.
From The Guardian, 27 April 2015. Story by Tom Levitt. Cross-party support for inquiry and parliamentary debate after newly-published documents reveal government knew of health risk of mandatory chemical dip. …
From Fatigue: Biomedicine, Health & Behavior, 24 April 2015 Findings from a clinical and laboratory database developed for discovery of pathogenic mechanisms in myalgic encephalomyelitis/chronic fatigue syndrome N.G. Klimas(a*), G. …
Grantham: Isaac Newton and Margaret Thatcher lived here. Now Hannah Thompson sets up local group.
We have a number of vacancies for telephone volunteers with our long-established ME Connect Helpline. If you would like to find out more, please email: meconnect@meassociation.org.uk for full details. The …
Volunteering opportunities with our ME Connect helpline | 24 April 2015 Read More »
We now have a full team of 14 runners for the BUPA London 10k and wish them all well when they take part in the race on Bank Holiday Monday, …
We’ve lined up a full team of runners for the BUPA London 10k event on May 25 Read More »
Seven studies from round the world – with full texts available for some of them.
Congratulations to Manchester M.E. patient Karen Morris, who has persuaded her local Healthwatch to run a qualitative online survey about the services available to people with ME/CFS in the Trafford …
Officials privately warned of the dangers of exposure to a sheep dip approved by government in the 80s and 90s.
The General Election takes place on May 7, and we know that people may want to contact their local parliamentary candidates to inform them about issues of key national concern …
Can you write about ME/CFS to your General Election candidates? | 20 April 2015 Read More »
LETTER SENT TODAY TO ITV’S ‘THIS MORNING’ SHOW The ME Association has received a number of complaints today about an item on ‘This Morning’ in which one of your contributors …
ITV show gets it wrong on life prospects for M.E. sufferers | 17 April 2015 Read More »
From the Journal of Clinical and Experimental Rheumatology. E-published 18 March 2015. A randomised controlled trial comparing duloxetine and acetyl L-carnitine in fibromyalgic patients: preliminary data Leombruni P(1), Miniotti M(1), …
TGI Friday! Our weekly round-up of recently published research abstracts | 17 April 2015 Read More »
Foggy the ME Dog at the Rialto Bridge in Venice – where he spent Easter raising money for M.E. research.
A former university professor, who has M.E. and loves running colours through her hair, is about to undergo an extreme haircut to promote awareness of the illness. Christine Dancey, a …
An extreme haircut for university professor who has M.E. on her mind | 15 April 2015 Read More »
From the St Albans and Harpenden Review, 13 April 2015. A former military nurse suffering from ME is having her head shaved to raise £10,000 for research into the illness. …
Nine out of ten GPs think the ten-minute consultation standard is inadequate for patient care, the BMA’s biggest ever survey of the profession has found. The BMA’s survey of nearly …
From Pain, April 2015. Evidence for sensitized fatigue pathways in patients with chronic fatigue syndrome Staud, Roland; Mokthech, Meriem; Price, Donald D.; Robinson, Michael E. Departments of (a) Medicine, (b)Oral …
TGI Friday! Our weekly round-up of recently published research abstracts | 10 April 2015 Read More »
Abstracts from eight studies this week – including MEA-funded mito/cytokine research in Liverpool.
From The FASEB Journal, published by the Federation of American Societies for Experimental Biology, April 2015. The Role of Cytokines in Muscle Fatigue in Patients with Chronic Fatigue Syndrome (CFS). …
