News | The ME Association - Part 3

Dr Shepherd discusses the Covid-19 vaccination programme and issues relevant to people with ME/CFS

The ME Association has written to Professor Chris Whitty, Chief Medical Officer, and the Joint Committee on Vaccination and Immunisation, to seek clarification on COVID-19 vaccine priority for people with ME/CFS Dear Professor Whitty and the Joint Committee on Vaccination and Immunisation, The ME Association is starting to hear from people with ME/CFS who are […]

Our singing superstar Kara Jane appears with Dolly Parton on the BBC local radio network on Monday, 28 December. Times vary: see our story.

A Christmas wish to you all – look after each other and please… stay safe! See you one the other side of the New Year.

The Applecart Arts Centre in Upton Park, East London, where ‘Illusions of Liberty’ will be staged next February.

The ME Association has submitted its formal response to NICE as part of the stakeholder consultation for the new ME/CFS clinical guideline.

ME Association slams the absence of ME/CFS references in NICE’s new emergency guideline on Long Covid

We have published a new leaflet to help people who want to claim early retirement on the grounds of ill-health because of ME/CFS.

We take issue with an editorial about the long-term effects of Long COVID in this weekend’s edition of The Lancet.

Nina Muirhead, SAS Doctor Dermatology Surgery, Buckinghamshire Healthcare NHS Trust, Amersham Hospital, Whielden Street Extracts Re: Long covid: doctors must assess and investigate patients properly Dear Editor, I strongly echo this sentiment from my long COVID colleagues about assessing and investigating patients properly and would like to add that doctors must also diagnose patients properly. […]

by Dr Charles Shepherd, Medical Adviser, ME Association With the start of vaccination against COVID-19 occurring this week, we are receiving queries about where people with ME/CFS will be on the priority list. The Joint Committee on Vaccination and Immunisation (JCVI) has produced a list of different groups of people in the order that they […]

Influential campaign group calls for graded exercise warning to be put on existing NICE guideline for ME/CFS.

In the last week, 5 new studies have been published. We look at the prevalence of perineural cysts and multi-omics revelations in ME/CFS.

Please join our annual #GoBlue4ME campaign during ME Awareness Week this year. Contact our fundraiser to get launched with ideas and support.

David Webb is pouring his love for his wife into four major running events next year. Please help him raise money for the MEA.

Please complete this quick survey to help improve international understanding of how ME/CFS impacts patients and family members.

Manx Radio supported the campaign for a local ME/CFS service with this easy-to-listen-to podcast.

We challenge some appalling psychobabble that appeared in an article in The Observer (Guardian.com) in an otherwise fairly good piece about ME/CFS.

This is the final day of our Christmas Appeal, The matched funds have been used up. But donations to our Medical Education Campaign are still welcome.

Please make the MEA’s day! Buy these cards or a painting for Christmas.