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Social Services can threaten families of children with Chronic Fatigue (ME)
Online blog Broadly highlights the fact that one in five children with ME are investigated by social services, with some even being forcibly placed in a hospital or foster homes, with destructive effects on their health. Social services can threaten … Continue reading
ME: a global health scandal – Stop ignoring ME video – ME Awareness week 2019
ME: a global health scandal People with ME are not asking for special treatment. We are asking for humane treatment and health equality. ME Awareness week 6th – 12th May 2019 Produced by Broken Battery, 2 May 2019 ME is … Continue reading
Epigenetic components of ME/CFS uncover potential Transposable Element activation
Epigenetic components of Myalgic Encephalomyelitis/Chronic Fatigue Syndrome Uncover potential Transposable Element Activation, by Eloy Almenar-Pérez, Tamara Ovejero PhD, Teresa Sánchez-Fito MSc, José A Espejo BSc, Lubov Nathanson PhD, Elisa Oltra PhD, in Clinical Therapeutics [Published online 23 March 2019] https://doi.org/10.1016/j.clinthera.2019.02.012 … Continue reading
Recent advances in our understanding of mast cell activation – or should it be mast cell mediator disorders?
Recent advances in our understanding of mast cell activation – or should it be mast cell mediator disorders?, by Theoharis C. Theoharides, Irene Tsilioni & Huali Ren in Expert Review of Clinical Immunology [Published online: 22 Apr 2019, https://doi.org/10.1080/1744666X.2019.1596800] … Continue reading
Advances in ME/CFS: past, present and future
Advances in ME/CFS: Past, Present and Future, by Kenneth J Friedman in Front. Pediatr., 18 April 2019 https://doi.org/10.3389/fped.2019.00131 Article abstract: The forerunner of what is today termed myalgic encephalomyelitis/chronic fatigue syndrome (ME/CFS) was described by the CDC in 1934. At … Continue reading
Cardiff woman with ME is fundraising for private brain photobiomodulation therapy
Fundraising for brain photobiomodulation therapy Jonathan Vaughan has despaired of getting help from his local health service, who are unwilling to even supply home visits in Cardiff for his seriously ill fiancée, and has set up a fund raising campaign … Continue reading
The ‘cognitive behavioural model’ of CFS: critique of a flawed model
The ‘Cognitive Behavioural Model’ of Chronic Fatigue Syndrome: critique of a flawed model, by Keith Geraghty, Leonard Jason, Madison Sunnquist, David Tuller, Charlotte Blease & Charles Adeniji in Journal of Health Psychology, April 23 2019 Review abstract: Chronic fatigue syndrome/myalgic … Continue reading
A nanoelectronics-blood-based diagnostic biomarker for ME/CFS
A nanoelectronics-blood-based diagnostic biomarker for myalgic encephalomyelitis/ chronic fatigue syndrome (ME/CFS), by R Esfandyarpour, A Kashi, M Nemat-Gorgani, J Wilhelmy, and R W Davis in PNAS April 2019 [https://doi.org/10.1073/pnas.1901274116] Significance: Myalgic encephalomyelitis/chronic fatigue syndrome (ME/CFS) is a disease which … Continue reading
ME Awareness Week, 6-12 May 2019- what can WE do?
WAMES in Awareness week From Saturday 6th to Friday 12th May – this year’s ME awareness week – WAMES will be continuing our efforts to raise awareness and inform doctors about ME, as part of our campaign to improve diagnosis … Continue reading
Duvet woman versus action man: the gendered aetiology of CFS according to English newspapers
Duvet woman versus action man: the gendered aetiology of Chronic Fatigue Syndrome according to English newspapers, by Rebecca Murray, Katy Day & Jane Tobbell in Feminist Media Studies [Published online: 15 Apr 2019 https://doi.org/10.1080/14680777.2019.1595694] Media portrayals of conditions such as … Continue reading
