A constituent with ME in the Australian Capital Territory (ACT) sent the Chilli ME Challenge to one of her representatives and she took it up! Nicole Lawder was elected to the ACT Legislative Assembly as the Member for Brindabella in 2013. ME needs Allies wherever we can find them, especially in the political arena! Thank you Nicole
Using a new technology that allows the sampling of living T-cells in real time, researchers at Stanford University have found that men and women turn on and off immune system genes differently. This may help explain the much higher incidence of autoimmune diseases like scleroderma, lupus, and multiple sclerosis among women. It may also help explain why
Meet Mike, the man behind Mike’s EU Marathon Challenge Mike has pledged to run 28 marathons for Myalgic Encephalomyelitis awareness and Invest in ME Recently I interviewed Mike from Mike’s EU Marathon Challenge to get to know the man behind the impressive goal. If you don’t remember, Mike recently pledged to run 28 marathons for
Why $250,000,000 in research funding? The #MEAction flagship Funding Equality Petition is called “Tell Congress to Support Funding Equality for ME” because we’re asking the United States Congress increase NIH Research funding for Myalgic Encephalomyelitis / Chronic Fatigue Syndrome (ME/CFS) to $250 million per year. Most patients, doctors, and researchers in the ME/CFS community agree
The National Institutes of Health have released the results of their 1.5 day workshop on Myalgic Encephalomyelitis/Chronic Fatigue Syndrome. The full P2P workshop abstract is available online but some of the most interesting and important points are excerpted below. Leave a comment and tell us, what do you like about the report? What don’t you
It’s rare that new research means rewriting textbooks. But new information discovered by University of Virginia School of Medicine researchers might do just that for neuroscience, immunology, and even anatomy. This discovery also has definite implications for the diagnosis and treatment of neuroimmune conditions like Myalgic Encephalomyelitis (Chronic Fatigue Syndrome). Excerpted from multiple sources. “The relationship
ME/CFS Illness Management Survey Results “No Decisions about me without me” The ME Association just released the results of a patient survey taken in 2012 that covered management and self-management courses commonly offered to patients with Myalgic Encephalomyelitis, Chronic Fatigue Syndrome, or Post-viral Fatigue Syndrome. The report (available in full on the ME Association website)
The Open Medicine Foundation’s big data study on severely ill patients with Myalgic Encephalomyelitis/Chronic Fatigue Syndrome is an exciting new project designed to uncover biomarkers by studying the sickest of the sick. Want to learn more? Your pressing questions about the study are answered below. How long will it take to do the study?
