In November 2015, six lectures on ME were held in Stavanger, Norway. The event was filmed and made into a DVD which is now available for an international audience with English subtitles for the Norwegian lectures.
Ten organisations so far have joined ME/CFS patient Clark Ellis’s call to Queen Mary University of London (QMUL) to release data from the PACE trial but one group has refused. In early February, Mr Ellis asked seven major UK ME/CFS charities to write to ask QMUL to abandon their tribunal appeal against the UK Information
NIH is dropping the functional movement disorder (FMD) control group from their intramural study, according to an email Simon McGrath received from Vicky Whittemore.
The US National Institutes of Health (NIH) is hosting a telebriefing on Tuesday to “share information about [their] upcoming activities and to gather feedback” from the ME/CFS advocacy community. They have limited phone lines and said they want to make sure to address questions from representatives from community organizations and leaders, so the call is not open to the entire public,
Update (Sunday March 6, 1630 GMT): NIH drops FMD control group I’d asked Dr Vicky Whittemore is she had any corrections to the content and got this reply: The only correction I have at this time is that it has been decided that they will not include individuals with functional movement disorders in this study
Australian scientists say they are close to marketing a diagnostic test for Chronic Fatigue Syndrome.
UPDATED: Canberra screenings of film ‘Forgotten Plague’ on Friday 1 April at 6pm or Monday 4 April at 1pm.
Last Week at NIH with a focus on the post-infectious ME/CFS intramural study – You can watch an introduction to the proposed NIH intramural study from the Principal Investigator of the study, Dr Nath, and can read a full transcript of his presentation and the subsequent Q&A session. The presentation was from two weeks ago
‘Chronic fatigue syndrome chronically underfunded’, Australian community radio current affairs program.
How should patients be integrated into the NIH process? The US National Institutes of Health has made several promising, public steps forward in recent months, announcing a new commitment to research ME/CFS, hinting at possible new drug trials, and promising to use strict criteria including the Canadian Consensus Criteria to select patients for their intramural studies. Yet
