ABOUT #MEAction USA
#MEAction USA works at the national, state and local level to create ME health equity in the US. We’re creating inroads in government agencies, organizing state chapters, and bringing ME education to all 50 states. Learn about all of our ongoing projects and campaigns and how you can get involved.
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Tell the CDC to Count Us!
Sign our petition calling for the the U.S. National Center for Health Statistics (NCHS) to accurately code and track ME/CFS. #CodeUsCountUsCureUs.
Take Our Chronic Illness Survey
Take our Chronic Illness Survey to increase our understanding of ME/CFS, Long COVID, POTS, hEDS, and MCAS.
Become an #MEAction Member
Become an #MEAction Member and support our thriving community fighting for recognition, education and research for ME.
Enroll in a Research Study
Enroll in a research study as a patient or healthy control.
Stop. Rest. Pace.
Join #MEAction's campaign to tell those with Long COVID to Stop. Rest. and Pace!
Join our MEpedia team
We are crowd-sourcing a knowledge base on the history, science and medicine of ME, CFS, and related diseases. Jump in!
Latest News
NIH Long COVID research lacks clear plan to identify and track ME/CFS
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
The Last Two Years Changed the World…
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,
CDC decides not to publish flawed ME/CFS treatments review!
As we enter the holidays we have a positive development to report coming out of yesterday’s ME/CFS stakeholder call with the U.S. Centers for Disease Control and Prevention (CDC). CDC has announced that it will not publish a systematic evidence review of ME/CFS treatments by the Oregon Health Science University Evidence-based Practice Center (EPC) in
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