Today #MEAction joins the community in mourning the loss of Dr. Ronald G. Tompkins, MD, ScD, who passed away this week. Ron Tompkins was a clinician, clinical researcher, and friend and ally to people with ME. He was the Sumner M. Redstone Professor of Surgery at Harvard Medical School, Founding Director of the Center for
MEAction has written to the National Institutes of Health (NIH) expressing our deep concern that the RECOVER Initiative research agenda lacks a clear plan for how to accurately identify or consistently track the onset of myalgic encephalomyelitis/chronic fatigue syndrome (ME/CFS) cases among patients with Long COVID. This is of particular importance because a sizable fraction
What a year 2021 was! People with ME have always faced formidable challenges: every day combatting stigma, lack of understanding from clinicians, NIH’s and CDC’s low budgetary commitments, and a world of challenges navigating disability on top of symptoms. It’s no exaggeration to say that 2020 and 2021 changed the world – and the world of chronic,
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This is exciting research! Looking forward to more updates. Proof of autoimmunity would definitely spark interest in developing tests and treatment. I don’t mean to sound petty, but I do wish someone could suggest to Dr. Davis that using the term “chronic fatigue” in place of “Chronic Fatigue Syndrome” or “ME/CFS” is misleading to those outside of the ME/CFS research, patient, and advocate community.