ME Awareness Week: Please take our survey on education and M.E. and consider sharing your story | 04 May 2018
Our focus on employment and education issues continues today with a new survey on education.
ME Awareness Week: BBC Newsbeat Documentary – M.E. And Me | 04 May 2018
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This BBC Newsbeat documentary will be available on iPlayer from 6.00am on Tuesday, 8th May.
ME Awareness Week: University, Work, Accessibility and M.E. from Pippa Stacey | 03 May 2018
Pippa says that people simply don’t understand about living with a disability like M.E.
The Irish News: Hope for ME: Co Down woman’s campaign for the thousands living with chronic fatigue syndrome | 02 May 2018
Joan McParland found herself bed bound due to the debilitating, energy sapping condition ME, but she is now helping others with the illness to campaign for an improvement in services.
Fundraising Feature: Beautifying Wheelchairs for M.E. | 01 May 2018
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Ellie has generously offered to make a donation to ME Association for each design she sells.
‘Blowin’ in the wind’ a song for M.E. by Robert Saunders | 30 April 2018
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This is my arrangement of Blowin’ in the Wind with alternative lyrics, performed by M.E. patients and their carers from around the world.
ME Awareness Week Focus on Employment and Education – Free leaflets for you to download! | 30 April 2018
We have made several leaflets available as free downloads to support efforts to raise awareness of employment and education issues.
ReMEmber Annual Conference with Dr Charles Shepherd and Dr Amolak Bansal is open to the general public | 27 April 2018
The Conference will take place in Burgess Hill on Saturday 12th May starting at 2.00pm.
ME Awareness Week: ‘People with M.E are the strongest, bravest, most dedicated, empathetic, generous and hard-working people in the world!’ | 23 April 2018
Lee knows what it is like trying to study and to work with M.E. And this is what the ME Association will be focusing on in ME Awareness Week.
Public consultation on PIP results in DWP pledge to record all assessments | 23 April 2018
“Labour will replace this failing system with personalised, holistic support, responsive to individual needs.” Margaret Greenwood MP.
The ME Association and Gary Burgess are pleased to announce the launch of The ME Show | 23 April 2018
The ME Show will go live at the very start of ME Awareness Week, on Monday 7th May, but a teaser episode is now available. Subscribe to the podcast on iTunes.
Forward ME – Meeting with Dr Diane O’Leary about possible WHO coding changes | 21 April 2018
Forward ME Notes of meeting held on Wednesday 28
With its’ Focus on ME Awareness Week, the Summer Issue of ME Essential is one you’ll want to read! | 20 April 2018
50 pages, packed full of interesting stories, news, research, campaigns, fundraising and medical information. There is nothing quite like ME Essential!
‘I mourn the life Mag could have led. Missing her has only just begun.’ A Personal Tribute to Mag Friel by Marion Michell | 19 April 2018
Marion Michell talks about her friend Meg, who took her own life after a long battle with severe M.E.
Liverpool Echo: Devastating ME leaves teen girl “unable to leave the house” | 16 April 2018
Rosie first suffered ME symptoms at the age of nine when she contracted a viral infection, but failed to recover from it.
Huffington Post: I Am Stuck In The Prison That Is ME | 13 April 2018
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Have you ever laid in bed and felt so ill that you truly thought you were going to die?
The countdown to ME Awareness Week begins today and we’re focusing on issues relating to work and to education | 12 April 2018
The ME Association is going BLUE for ME Awareness Week 2018 and we’re also focusing on issues relating to employment and education.
ME Association March Summary of ME/CFS Published Research | 09 April 2018
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The monthly summary of ME/CFS research publications for March 2018.
Forward ME to Science Media Centre ‘Retract and replace your factsheet on CFS/ME’ | 05 April 2018
The Countess of Mar writes on behalf of Forward ME to the Science Media Centre asking for a retraction of inaccuracies in their ‘factsheet’ on ME/CFS.
‘Bed-bound and in unimaginable pain, watching my daughter waste away and die from ME was torture’ | 02 April 2018
Merryn Crofts died on May 23 last year, 10 days after her 21st birthday.