Australia: Write to the Health Minister
March 10, 2016
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Want to write to the Health Minister but need a hand? Here’s a handy guide to creating your own letter.
Now’s the time to write, before the election!
Author: Sasha Nimmo
Griffith Uni claims breakthrough on diagnostic blood test
March 3, 2016
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Australian scientists say they are close to marketing a diagnostic test for Chronic Fatigue Syndrome.
*NEW TIME * Australia: See Forgotten Plague Film in Canberra
March 3, 2016
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UPDATED: Canberra screenings of film ‘Forgotten Plague’ on Friday 1 April at 6pm or Monday 4 April at 1pm.
Australia shouldn't fund 'totally inappropriate' CBT and GET
February 28, 2016
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‘Chronic fatigue syndrome chronically underfunded’, Australian community radio current affairs program.
Big donations speeding up Big Data Study
February 12, 2016
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The Open Medicine Foundation’s Big Data study on severely ill patients can, and is, speeding up thanks to big donations.
Australian Health Department pins its hopes on NIH research
February 12, 2016
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Australian senator asks medical research council about ‘remarkably small amount of funding since 2000’ and are they funding GET or CBT .
UK study refuses to release data: PACE trial
January 21, 2016
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Large controversial UK study still refusing to release data: latest update on the PACE trial
Australian Health Dept answers questions on ME
January 20, 2016
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Most of the $2.4 million in research the Australian government says is for CFS is spent on psychology, exercise or for other conditions such as hepatitis C. No studies funded in a decade.
Norwegian researchers ask 'What exactly is M.E.?'
December 10, 2015
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Norwegian researchers say patients with ME have more severe symptoms than those with chronic fatigue syndrome, but better mental health.
Study proposes new name, definition and biomarkers
December 5, 2015
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Researchers from Australia’s Deakin University have proposed a new name for ME/CFS: Neuro-Inflammatory and Oxidative Fatigue. An Australian university is suggesting a new name to replace ME/CFS. They studied 196 subjects with Chronic Fatigue Syndrome (CDC criteria) and 83 with chronic fatigue and found two distinct groups.