Tag Archives: Forward ME Group
UK ME charity statement on the Covid vaccine
Forward-ME: ME charity statement on the Covid vaccine, 12 January 2021 We are receiving a very high number of enquiries from people with M.E. asking if they should have the Covid-19 vaccine, and when they should expect to be … Continue reading
Margaret, Countess of Mar, & ME advocate, retires
ME Research UK: The Countess of Mar – an Appreciation 1 May 2020 From 1st May 2020, when the Countess of Mar retires officially from the House of Lords after almost 45 years’ service, the ME community will be losing … Continue reading
CBT & GET are ‘unsuitable treatments or management approaches for ME/CFS’
The results of the Forward ME and Oxford Brookes University patient survey on CBT and GET in ME/CFS have been published. 2,274 people with ME/CFS of all ages responded to the online survey with their experiences of cognitive behavioural therapy and/or … Continue reading
Forward ME group writes to the Science Media Centre
ME Research UK blog post, 5 April 2018: Forward-ME Group Letter – Science Media Group Forward-ME Group Letter Forward-ME Group Chair, The Countess of Mar, has written on behalf of the members of the Group to the Chief Executive of … Continue reading
Forward ME Group writes to the Times: patients are ‘not simply deconditioned’
Times online letter, 22 March 2018: TREATMENT FOR PATIENTS WITH ME Sir, The article by Tom Whipple, (“Findings of £5m ME chronic fatigue study ‘worthless’,” Mar 22) highlights a long-standing problem. The National Institute for Health and Care Excellence (Nice) … Continue reading
A dozen different diseases? Prof Stephen Holgate calls for radical change in ME/CFS research
ME/CFS probably isn’t one disease, or even a few different ones – but could be as many as fifteen. So said Professor Stephen Holgate, Chair of the UK Research Collaborative (CMRC), when he addressed the Forward ME Group in the … Continue reading
