Given the rapidly changing landscape at the federal level, we recognize that the road ahead may bring some changes for patient advocacy. Even in this evolving environment, we’re excited to share some positive news: #MEAction and the Mayo Clinic have been awarded the Sigma 2024 American Nurses Credentialing Center Evidence-Based Practice Implementation Grant awarded by
Last month, RECOVER TLC met at NIH headquarters in Bethesda. The goal was to initiate a drug development strategy for Long COVID clinical trials. Now, RECOVER TLC has opened the RECOVER-TLC Intervention Information Request Form, where you can make suggestions about which drugs and other interventions to trial! Anyone can submit a therapeutic for consideration
The RECOVER-Treating Long COVID (RECOVER TLC) Kick-off Meeting was Sept 23-25 in person and over Zoom. I had the privilege of attending over Zoom and Jaime Seltzer, #MEAction’s Scientific Director, represented the needs of the ME community in person and as an invited member of a panel on clinical trial design. There were many speakers
We are excited to announce the kick-off of #MillionsMissing 2024 – our ongoing campaign to Teach ME and Treat ME by educating medical providers across our nation’s hospital systems and medical schools about myalgic encephalomyelitis (ME). Throughout the spring, summer and fall, #MEAction teams are hosting 13 medical education events to encourage medical providers to
We are thrilled to share with you that Jaime Seltzer, #MEAction’s Scientific Director, has been selected for TIME100 Health 2024, TIME’s new annual list of 100 individuals who most influenced global health this year! This is a huge honor based on years of work fighting for equity for people with ME. We intimately know the
NIH’s recent paper on ME/CFS elicited strong reactions from the community.
With it being Black History Month, it was crucial to me to make sure we spotlighted someone from the ME/CFS and Long COVID community who is Black. Being Black and disabled is an entirely different experience. Not only do we deal with ableism, but we also deal with racism, especially medical racism. According to the
The NIH ME/CFS Research Roadmap public comment period is open now with a deadline of March 8th. #MEAction is a member of the ME/CFS Research Roadmap Working Group and for the past several months we have been advocating on behalf of this community within this group. Our Executive Director, Laurie Jones, served on the nervous
The U.S. Senate HELP Committee held a hearing on Long COVID yesterday to discuss advancing research and improving patient care.
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
