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New project investigating the role of microRNAs in ME/CFS ME Research UK is delighted to announce that we have awarded funding to Dr Sarah Annesley at La Trobe University in Australia for a new study looking at microRNA profiles and their impact on platelet function and energy production in...

Last week, the first meeting of ME Research UK’s ‘Researcher Circle’ took place virtually. The Circle is aimed (initially) at PhD-level students working on projects funded by ME Research UK charity and aims to create an environment to encourage, support, and to facilitate the entrance and...

https://www.eurekalert.org/news-releases/1092287 News Release 23-Jul-2025 Study shows a need for vigilance when observing long COVID symptoms in younger children Rutgers researchers say clinicians and caregivers may not recognize the symptoms because they are unfamiliar with it Peer-Reviewed...

https://www.medscape.com/viewarticle/after-long-delay-me-cfs-strategy-finally-arrives-2025a1000jiw

Copperfield has previously written negatively about ME: https://www.meresearch.org.uk/wp-content/uploads/2012/11/UnhelpfulCounsel.pdf

Despite the date on this I think it might be new. https://buff.ly/QMBUGA3 Pulse Today 2,271 followers5h • 5 hours ago • Visible to anyone on or off LinkedIn Follow 'I can’t think of a single patient who has returned from a referral to a CFS clinic, a Long Covid Clinic, a fibromyalgia...

Source: British Association of Clinicians in ME/CFS (BACME) Date: July 22, 2025 URL: https://bacme.info BACME on DHSC Delivery Plan --------------------------- The British Association of Clinicians in ME/CFS (BACME) welcomes publication of the DHSC ME/CFS Delivery Plan on 22 July 2025...

https://www.tandfonline.com/doi/full/10.1080/21641846.2025.2531722 Research Article Psychological flexibility as a predictor of work engagement and symptom severity in personnel with chronic fatigue syndrome Gopika Surendran & Tony P. Jose Received 03 Apr 2025, Accepted 07 Jul 2025, Published...

“Local mother speaks out about ME impact on daughter” https://www.northernsound.ie/news/local-mother-speaks-out-about-me-impact-on-daughter-263475 Short text summary of what Shirley said during interview.

Recording of a 25-minute interview today with Dr Speight and Shirley, a mother of a 15-year-old: https://www.northernsound.ie/podcasts/the-joe-finnegan-show/podcast-me-cfs-263474 He discusses graded exercise therapy, sleep hygiene, the 2007 and 2021 NICE guidelines, the importance of pacing and...

We demanded help for our sick children. We were accused of abuse new Some of society’s most vulnerable are being torn from their families by officials who claim their parents are fabricating illness...

https://www.eurekalert.org/news-releases/1091386 News Release 16-Jul-2025 What long COVID-19, ME/CFS, and neuroscience have in common and to gain from one another Research shows a striking similarity between long-haul COVID-19 and myalgic encephalomyelitis/chronic fatigue syndrome (MECFS), both...

Emerge Australia: Just a reminder: The 2025 ME/CFS & Long COVID Media Awards are now open for nominations! Your nominations are crucial in highlighting journalism that changes how ME/CFS and long COVID are perceived. Let's celebrate reporting that amplifies patient voices, dismantles stigma...

The full text has now been published: https://www.frontiersin.org/journals/neuroscience/articles/10.3389/fnins.2025.1627462/full

The full text includes the following but I know no more: --- Chronic fatigue syndrome (3.14 days), multiple chemical sensitivities (2.27) and fibromyalgia (1.92) were the conditions associated with the largest incremental absenteeism days. Stroke (13.18 days), chronic fatigue syndrome (10.89)...

Comment: unfortunately the information that is freely available is not very informative in terms of the substance of this piece. https://www.valueinhealthjournal.com/article/S1098-3015(25)00498-X/abstract Abstract only Volume 28, Issue 6, Supplement 1S77July 2025 EE81 Burden of Disease in...

The UWV benefits agency wrongly told several patients with ME that they could work a large part of the week or full-time. The Central Appeals Tribunal (CRvB) ruled this today in an interim ruling. Google translation...

“Computerized behavioral therapy device for the treatment of fibromyalgia symptoms” Source: U.S. Federal Register Vol. 90, #134, pp 32352-33261 Date: July 16, 2025 URL...

This wasn’t a bridge too far for Det Chief Insp Parrish! July 16, 2025 The world’s only murder detective with ME in his life is back for round two in the DCI Parrish crime thriller series – but he’s not a pretty sight! In ‘Recognition Man’, writer Bear Lawrence once again lifts retired...

ME Research UK: In 1986, Dr Melvin Ramsay, a British physician renowned for his research and advocacy on myalgic encephalomyelitis (ME), published Postviral Fatigue Syndrome: The Saga of Royal Free Disease (later titled Myalgic Encephalomyelitis and Postviral Fatigue States: The Saga of Royal...