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#MEAction sends letter to NIH ahead of ME/CFS meeting
Last week the U.S. National Institutes of Health (NIH) announced it will hold its next ME/CFS Telebriefing on Thursday, Nov. 5 at 11am Eastern Time. #MEAction staff and volunteers worked quickly to draft a letter with detailed questions for NIH in advance of this meeting. You can read the full letter here. We will keep
All Doctors Should Go To This Website For ME Information!
We are thrilled to share that The US ME/CFS Clinician Coalition has launched a website to provide clinicians with expert information on the diagnosis and management of myalgic encephalomyelitis/ chronic fatigue syndrome (ME/CFS).
ME/CFS and Long COVID: What’s the Connection?
#MEAction hosted a seminar for post-COVID-19 “long haulers” on Friday, August 7, to learn more about ME/CFS as a potential diagnosis after viral infection, in partnership with Body Politic and the COVID-19 Working Group New York. Watch the seminar now!
REPORT PART 2: NIH LACKS COORDINATED RESPONSE FOR LONG COVID RESEARCH
The NIH is shaping research initiatives to study the long-term consequences of COVID-19 (long COVID), but it lacks the coordinated, outcomes-focused strategy necessary to deliver biomarkers and treatments to the people who need them.
REPORT PART 1: NIH IS NOT ADVANCING ME/CFS RESEARCH
The NIH is doing little to expedite a coordinated, outcomes-focused plan for ME/CFS research, an enormous missed opportunity in the era of COVID-19. Editor’s note: This is part of a report series on what the NIH is (and isn’t) doing for ME/CFS and long COVID research. For our Report Summary see here. For Report Part 2: NIH
ANNOUNCING A SPECIAL JOURNAL ISSUE DEDICATED TO ME
We are thrilled to announce the scientific journal WORK: a Journal of Prevention, Assessment & Rehabilitation has devoted an issue solely to M.E. research.