Tag: treatment

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. […]

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.

In an announcement that was delayed due to the pandemic, Scotland has now issued a cautionary notice on the use of GET in ME/CFS.

The ME Association appeared in several media publications at the weekend sharing opinion about Long-Covid and the proposed new specialist clinics.

Dr Shepherd answers a question about the pneumonia vaccine and provides the information you need to make an informed decision.

The information in this new guide should be of help to people when managing post-Covid fatigue syndrome and post-Covid ME/CFS.

Carol Monaghan has tabled an Early Day Motion that we would like you to encourage your own MPs to support. A template email is included for you to use.

These potentially important findings were presented by Ryan Whelan from the Simmaron Research Institute at the recent IACFS/ME virtual conference.

“It is incessant, inescapable torture. You are trapped. Completely powerless. You’re in agony with countless unbearable symptoms…”

Chris Ponting talks about the DecodeME study that seeks to understand the causes of M.E. and could help advance the discovery of effective treatments.

Published letters in response to the DecodeME research announcement and recent articles. With Jeremy Hunt and Carol Monaghan.

“The GP’s I have seen treat everyone based on symptoms rather than the whole illness itself…”

“While writing this I am again thinking, “Why me?” I do not know when I am going to stop thinking about his question, maybe I never will.”

This free download provides information to help in the understanding of Myalgic Encephalopathy.

Dr Shepherd has updated the weekly bulletin on covid-19 and ME/CFS.

We provide a weekly update on Covid-19 in a new free leaflet and a letter about vulnerability to be used when required.

Sharing your story is one of the best ways we have of improving understanding and awareness of M.E.

The number of people in Nottinghamshire suffering from fibromyalgia has soared in recent years, according to new NHS figures.

A new group of health professionals – Physios For ME – are seeking your feedback in this month’s MEA website survey.

Catriona Courtier, from the Network MESH group in West London, gave a speech about treatment from the patient’s perspective when she addressed the Royal Society of Medicine conference on ME and CFS on Saturday, 11 July 2009. The text of her speech follows: