We have received notification that the CFS service led by consultant neurologist Dr Abhijit Chaudhuri at Queen’s Hospital, Romford, Essex, is now taking nationwide referrals. Click on the image below …
Does anyone have experience of using this fee-paying service for help with DWP benefit applications, disputes, appeals, etc? Website: www.fightback4justice.co.uk We have received some positive reports but would like to …
Feedback required please on the Fightback4Justice website | 27 February 2017 Read More »
In ME Association colours: the four friends who are about to scale England’s highest mountain
In this 18-minute film, Dr Ron Davis presents an ME/CFS research update from his lab at the Stanford Genome Technology Centre. The Centre has made significant breakthroughs towards understanding the …
A 10-film on M.E. was shown on Carte Blanche, South Africa’s longest-running TV investigation show, on 20 February 2017. It has won plaudits round the world for its straight talking …
Plaudits for new South African TV news documentary on M.E. | 24 February 2017 Read More »
A scientist called Sonia Lee has produced this very sleek, eight-and-a-half minute critique of the PACE Trial on YouTube
From The Open Journal of Bioresources, 20 February 2017. Bioresource Papers The UK ME/CFS Biobank for biomedical research on Myalgic Encephalomyelitis/Chronic Fatigue Syndrome (ME/CFS) and Multiple Sclerosis Eliana M Lacerda(1,*), …
From the Disability News Service, 23 February 2017. Story by John Pring. A disabled woman who took her own life after being told she had lost a benefits appeal had …
Dr Paul Worthley, who built up quite a reputation for the care of patients with ME/CFS when he worked at Burrswood Hospital in Kent, is now is seeing ME/CFS patients …
From Science Alert, 22 February 2017. Story by Fiona MacDonald. ONE OF THE BIGGEST MYTHS ABOUT CHRONIC FATIGUE SYNDROME JUST GOT DEBUNKED – CHRONIC FATIGUE IS A REAL DISEASE Chronic …
The NCNED team – led by Professors Sonya Marshall-Gradisnik and Don Staines
This response was written by Catherine Hale and Patricia de Wolfe. The South East London ME Support Group is a small charity for the support of people living with Myalgic …
Jim Al-khalili’s subject in his ‘The Life Scientific’ programme on BBC Radio 4 on Tuesday, February 14, was Professor Sir Simon Wessely, president of the Royal College of Psychiatrists, who …
New research published today indicates that taking a regular vitamin D supplement will reduce the chance of picking up infections. BBC Health News report on this research Link to previous …
From New Scientist, 13 February 2017. Story by Andy Coughlan. It’s as if a switch has been flicked. Evidence is mounting that chronic fatigue syndrome (CFS) is caused by the …
The ME Association has thanked an Anglesey musician for his dedicated fundraising efforts which have raised hundreds to support sufferers of an illness which causes an extreme tiredness that does …
UPDATE 22 MARCH 2017: The publishers made this paper available to read as an Open Access document today. The Open Access link is www.tandfonline.com/doi/full/10.1080/21641846.2017.1259724 Story by Tony Britton The ME …
From the Journal of Human Nutrition and Dietetics (open access), 22 January 2017 Review – Systematic Review – Meta-Analysis Dietary and nutrition interventions for the therapeutic treatment of chronic fatigue …
From Biological Psychiatry, published online 31 August 2016. Prefrontal Structure Varies as a Function of Pain Symptoms in Chronic Fatigue Syndrome. van der Schaaf ME(1), De Lange FP(2), Schmits IC(3), …
Story by Sarah Staples, press officer, The ME Association Research – at least research into ME – it seems, is like buses. You wait years and then five come along …
