Category: Media

#MEAction UK’s letter to the BBC over the show Dragons’ Den

We are writing to express our deep concerns about a segment featured on an episode of Dragons’ Den, which aired on BBC1 on Jan 18th 2024. The episode in question showcased a product “Acu Seeds” that had a back story where the entrepreneur said she “believed they had aided in her recovery of ME/CFS”. This

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Senate HELP Committee to Hold Hearing on Long COVID  

U.S. Senate HELP Committee to Hold Hearing on Long COVID   The U.S. Senate Committee on Health, Education, Labor & Pensions will host a hearing on addressing Long COVID, advancing research and improving patient care TOMORROW, Thurs. 18 at 10 a.m. ET.  Watch the hearing and find more details HERE.   Angela Meriquez Vázquez, M.S.W. will be

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A red background with slight paper texture to it is displayed with Body Politic mustard yellow in a wave shape at the bottom. Above the background there are three white illustrations of forearms with hands in a fist rising from the bottom of the image. At the top, center is the text: We are stronger together. It is flanked on both sides by the Body Politic and #MEAction logo.

 #MEAction & Body Politic: We Are Stronger Together

Announcing #MEAction and Body Politic’s new collaboration: we are excited to announce that #MEAction will now host Body Politic’s advocacy work as a project of #MEAction. Many of you know that Body Politic’s support group has officially closed. This was a devastating loss to the community – we know so much of the Long COVID

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Image features newspappers folder up and stacked together vertically. There is a red box in the center that has the words, Why We Keep Telling the Story of ME to the Press in white and the #MEAction logo in the righhand corner of the box.

Why We Keep Telling the Story of ME to the Press

Our press work continues to drum a strong beat as we tell the story of ME everyday to the media. We will continue to fight for our community’s decades of expertise living with, treating and researching ME to be heard, and integrated into our government’s Long COVID response. We refused to be erased from the

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ME/CFS on TV (Part 3)

RETURN TO PART 1 OF THIS SERIES HERE ME/CFS ON THE ITALIAN TV SCREEN: A VIRTUOUS MODEL by Giada Da Ros Through sundry television spaces (news, fiction, talk shows), the ME/CFS community challenged existing political, medical, and philosophical approaches to the illness (and to maladies in general).  The community sought to re-appropriate the discourse, fight

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ME/CFS On TV (Part 2)

RETURN TO PART 1 OF THIS SERIES HERE “THAT’S WHY THEY DON’T BELIEVE YOU, YOU DON’T LOOK SICK!”: FICTIONAL REPRESENTATIONS OF ME/CFS by Giada Da Ros Sociologists emphasize the importance of social and cultural representation of social and cultural representation of chronic and emerging disease, both for individual and collective behavior. “(T)he fact that people

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