Tag: chronic fatigue syndrome

It is ME Awareness Week in May and we’ll be focusing on health and social care against the background of the new NICE clinical guideline for ME/CFS.

Dr Muirhead and Cardiff University need to hear your experiences of how ME/CFS affects the Quality of Life of patients, carers, and family members.

Carol Monaghan raised awareness of the similarity in symptoms and management of Long-Covid and ME/CFS in the recent debate in parliament.

We want to hear your views about having the Covid-19 vaccination and we’d welcome your feedback if you have already had the vaccine.

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

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

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.

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

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

There has been good news in recent days about potential vaccines for Covid-19 that could see an end to restrictions for people in the UK by Easter 2021…

ME Essential Magazine and the Christmas Supplement will be sent out to ME Association members this week. We hope there is something for everyone!

We hear from someone with severe ME who describes what Post-Exertional Malaise feels like and the measures that can help when in this situation…

We have updated the range of free leaflets about Covid-19/ME/CFS and the current restrictions and include a new leaflet aimed at Students…

In the first week of December, any donation to the Big Give Appeal will be doubled! Help us to change the medical mindset within the NHS…

The ME Association is recruiting for a new Webmaster – someone who can look after the website and website shop and grow its online presence…

Graded exercise therapy should no longer be offered for the treatment of ME/CFS, says NICE in its draft clinical guidelines.

The NICE stakeholder consultation process begins today. You can take part and help produce the new clinical guideline on ME/CFS…

The new NICE guideline has removed graded exercise as a recommended management option…

We report on 5 new research studies and highlight the discovery of bioenergetic defects in the skeletal muscle of people with ME/CFS.

The new leaflets explain what might be expected from a diagnosis of ME/CFS and how the illness is classed as a disability by the UK Government.