We are a group of people over the age of 55 with ME. In August, Bob Gawron wrote our first article introducing us to the ME community. At that time we had 520 members from around the globe. In less than 3 months we have almost doubled our membership. We are now over 1,000 members
Mary Gelpi first published this post on her blog, 25 Pills a Day. Mary launched a petition asking the director of the U.S. National Institutes of Health, Francis Collins, to increase funding to 100 million annually for ME/CFS. She just sent a large box containing the petition and 50,000 signatures to Francis Collins. The box
The protest against the Danish physician, Per Fink, last week demonstrates how our community takes action in a variety of ways to fight for people with myalgic encephalomyelitis (ME). 1) #MEAction New York organized a protest outside the conference where Fink was presenting on his unscientific theory of Bodily Distress Syndrome, which includes ME and
The Stanford Genome Technology Center will host the Second Annual Community Symposium on the Molecular Basis of ME/CFS, sponsored by the Open Medicine Foundation, at Stanford University on Saturday, Sept. 29. The following researchers will be presenting: Ronald W. Davis, PhD, Maureen Hanson, PhD, Jonas Bergquist, MD, PhD, Wenzhong Xiao, PhD, Alain Moreau, PhD, Ronald G.
#MEAction is thrilled to welcome aboard UK Coordinator, Espe Moreno, for the UK coordinator position this fall. Based in London, Espe previously worked for the Time for Unrest impact campaign in the UK, overseeing social media, screening events, and various advocacy efforts. Espe is a marketing, film and communications professional with 10+ years of international
It has been another active month in our community! A few major items to share: Family, Friends and Allies for ME #MEAction is supporting a new project to build a support network for healthy allies called FFAME – Family, Friends and Allies for ME. FFAME aims to support family, friends, caregivers and allies of people with
