Category Archives: News
ME in Wales in the media, 24 Oct 2018
Catch up with the media coverage of the ME and the #TimeForUnrestWales campaign. Wales today at 6.30pm – the item on ME starts at 15:30, and is little changed from the earlier news bulletin. In the broadcast Owen Hughes says … Continue reading
Diagnosis and Management of ME & CFS – Dr David Kaufman’s training video for doctors
Diagnosis and Management of Myalgic Encephalomyelitis and Chronic Fatigue Syndrome Dr David Kaufman’s training video for doctors shows how straight forward it is to begin the education for doctors in the true nature of ME. Unrest Film Published on 16 … Continue reading
ME healthcare in Wales is in the news – ‘scandalous’, ‘a health & social care crisis’!
ME healthcare in Wales is in the news! As, people with ME prepare to meet AMs at the Senedd today, 24th October 2018, to watch an excerpt of the award winning film Unrest, the BBC is featuring ME on the … Continue reading
School functioning in adolescents with CFS [Australia]
School functioning in adolescents with Chronic Fatigue Syndrome, by Sarah Jenette Knight, Jennifer Politis, Christine Garnham, Adam Scheinberg and Michelle Anne Tollit in Front. Pediatr., 16 October 2018 Background: It is well known that adolescents with chronic fatigue syndrome (CFS) experience greater … Continue reading
Withdrawn – Traditional Chinese medicinal herbs for the treatment of idiopathic chronic fatigue and chronic fatigue syndrome
Traditional Chinese medicinal herbs for the treatment of idiopathic chronic fatigue and chronic fatigue syndrome – This review has been withdrawn from the Cochrane Database of Systematic Reviews Cochrane Systematic Review – Intervention Version published: 15 October 2018 Reason for withdrawal from … Continue reading
Final ME/CFS NICE guideline scope published, Oct 2018
Communication RE: NICE guideline on Myalgic encephalomyelitis (or encephalopathy)/chronic fatigue syndrome: diagnosis and management (Oct 2020) The final scope and equality impact assessment for this NICE guideline have now been published [Oct 16th], along with all the stakeholder comments that … Continue reading
Chronic Fatigue Syndrome: from chronic fatigue to more specific syndromes
Chronic Fatigue Syndrome: from Chronic Fatigue to More Specific Syndromes, by S Blitshteyn, P Chopra in Eur Neurol 2018; 80:73–77 Research Article: In the last decade, a group of chronic disorders associated with fatigue (CDAF) emerged as the leading cause of … Continue reading
Immunosignature analysis of ME/CFS – promising diagnostic biomarker
Immunosignature Analysis of Myalgic Encephalomyelitis/Chronic Fatigue Syndrome (ME/CFS) Oliver P Günther, Jennifer L Gardy, Phillip Stafford, Øystein Fluge, Olav Mella, Patrick Tang, Ruth R Miller, Shoshana M Parker, Stephen A Johnston, David M Patrick in Molecular Neurobiology (2018) pp 1-9 [Published online: … Continue reading
GET for ME/CFS is not effective & unsafe – re-analysis of a Cochrane review
Graded exercise therapy for myalgic encephalomyelitis/chronic fatigue syndrome is not effective and unsafe. Re-analysis of a Cochrane review, by Mark Vink & Alexandra Vink-Niese in Health Psychology Open, Vol 5, issue: 2 [First Published October 8, 2018] Review article abstract: … Continue reading
School nurses can improve the lives of students with ME/CFS
School nurses can improve the lives of students with Myalgic Encephalomyelitis/ Chronic Fatigue Syndrome, by Kenneth J. Friedman, Beth Mattey, Faith Newton in NASN School Nurse [First Published September 15, 2018] Article abstract: Myalgic encephalomyelitis/chronic fatigue syndrome (ME/CFS) is a chronic illness that … Continue reading