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Anna Redshaw’s ‘Blue Sunday’ Tea Party For M.E. in aid of various ME charities (including ME Research UK) will be held this year on Sunday 18th May 2025. Since its launch in 2013, the initiative has raised over £140,000 for charities. How to take part...

ME Research UK: Jente Van Campenhout and colleagues at Vrije Universiteit Brussel have recently published a review in the journal, Biomolecules, summarising the evidence connecting energy metabolism (the process of energy production and utilisation in the body) and dysfunction of the immune...

ME Research UK: Researchers at Charité University Hospital in Berlin highlighted evidence that autoantibodies may be involved in the pathophysiology (underlying disease processes) of long COVID and ME/CFS. To test the hypothesis, they recruited 20 individuals with long COVID, who met the...

ME Research UK: Findings from a study by a team of researchers in the USA have reinforced the need for medical schools – and related health care professional training programmes, to include up-to-date, evidence-based educational materials on ME/CFS which not only reflect the physical nature of...

https://meassociation.org.uk/2025/03/updated-booklet-orthostatic-intolerance/ Updated Booklet: Orthostatic Intolerance March 17, 2025 Dr Charles Shepherd, Honorary Medical Adviser to the ME Association has updated the ME Association's information on Orthostatic Intolerance (OI). This free...

https://journals.lww.com/bpmonitoring/abstract/9900/comparison_of_the_head_up_tilt_test_and_the.147.aspx Original Article Comparison of the head-up tilt test and the 10-minute NASA lean test for assessing blood pressure and heart rate responses in young individuals with postacute COVID-19...

https://www.eurekalert.org/news-releases/1077514 News Release 19-Mar-2025 Long COVID could be costing U.S. $2.0-$6.5 billion annually The cost of an individual long COVID-19 case can range from $5,084 to $11,646 per year Peer-Reviewed Publication CUNY Graduate School of Public Health and...

https://academic.oup.com/jid/advance-article-abstract/doi/10.1093/infdis/jiaf030/7972782?redirectedFrom=fulltext Sarah M Bartsch, Kevin L Chin, Ulrich Strych, Danielle C John, Tej D Shah, Maria Elena Bottazzi, Kelly J O’Shea, McKaylee Robertson, Colleen Weatherwax, Jessie Heneghan, Marie F...

Not sure whether this tells us much about ME/CFS and similar given: “What was surprising was that, for both groups, heart rate and step count eventually returned to pre-infection levels,” Ledebur notes. “Despite ongoing shortness of breath and/or fatigue, affected individuals took as many steps...

https://www.nature.com/articles/s41746-025-01456-x Wearable data reveals distinct characteristics of individuals with persistent symptoms after a SARS-CoV-2 infection Katharina Ledebur, Marc Wiedermann, Christian Puta, Stefan Thurner, Peter Klimek & Dirk Brockmann npj Digital Medicine...

https://www.frontiersin.org/journals/science/articles/10.3389/fsci.2025.1560472/full The challenge of sepsis Jonathan Cohen* Department of Medicine, Brighton & Sussex Medical School, Brighton, United Kingdom A Viewpoint on the Frontiers in Science Lead Article Deciphering sepsis...

That paper was written by a hodge podge of other authors as well as the Morten team: Leah Davis1Maisy Higgs1Ailsa Snaith2Tiffany A. Lodge1James Strong1Jose A. Espejo-Oltra3Sławomir Kujawski4Paweł Zalewski4,5Etheresia Pretorius6,7Michael Hoerger8Karl J. Morten1* 1The Nuffield Department of...

https://www.eurekalert.org/news-releases/1076866 News Release 17-Mar-2025 Nearly one in ten unsure if they have Long Covid Almost 5% have the condition and socially disadvantaged groups are most affected Peer-Reviewed Publication University of Southampton UNDER EMBARGO UNTIL 00:01 AM UK...

https://onlinelibrary.wiley.com/doi/10.1111/hex.70202 ORIGINAL ARTICLE Open Access Exploring Long Covid Prevalence and Patient Uncertainty by Sociodemographic Characteristics Using GP Patient Survey Data Mirembe Woodrow, Nida Ziauddeen, Dianna Smith, Nisreen A. Alwan First published: 17 March...

Entry was updated on March 15, 2025: https://www.britannica.com/science/myalgic-encephalomyelitis-chronic-fatigue-syndrome

65.7% of persistent LC participants exhibited clinically important fatigue, 34.0% were suggestive of PEM and 5.5% were suggestive of myalgic encephalomyelitis/chronic fatigue syndrome, all of which were nearly twice as high as those in no LC (35.9%, 12.8%, and 1.8%, respectively). These results...

https://www.thelancet.com/journals/lanwpc/article/PIIS2666-6065(25)00044-6/fulltext Articles Online first 101507 March 13, 2025 Open access Health outcomes one year after Omicron infection among 12,789 adults: a community-based cross-sectional study Hui Zhang Peng Yang Xiaoying Gu Ying Sun...

https://www.sciencedirect.com/science/article/pii/S1389945725001200 Sleep Medicine Available online 14 March 2025 In Press, Journal Pre-proof Assessing Fatigue in Myalgic Encephalomyelitis/Chronic Fatigue Syndrome Patients before and after Treatment with Bright Light Therapy: a prospective...

The CDC study on the Georgia cohort (Reeves et al., 2007) nominally uses the Fukuda criteria but it uses a weird operationalisation of the criteria. I think it should be ignored (found a prevalence of 2.54%).