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Week beginning 15th September 2025 News, advocacy and articles #MEAction (USA) "Advocacy Works: Fighting for ME/CFS and Long COVID in Minnesota" An update on a new program, funded by the Minnesota Department of Health, for Minnesota state residents who have Long COVID, ME/CFS, and other...

Week beginning 8th September 2025 News, advocacy and articles UK Parliament Ask your MP to sign the Early Day Motion (EDM) on the Final delivery plan on ME/CFS. The motion welcomes the government delivery plan but points to the lack of commitment to research funding and lack of plans for...

Week beginning 1st September 2025 News, advocacy and articles Germany At the International ME/CFS Conference in Berlin on May 12 2025, a group of researchers signed an International Declaration stating that "there is a moral, medical, economic and scientific imperative to invest robustly in...

For next week's news go to this thread: News in Brief - September 2025

This thread has a Science for ME 'News in Brief' post for each week in September 2025 by a team including @Trish, @Kalliope, @ahimsa and @SNT Gatchaman. Scroll down to see this week's news.

Week beginning 25th August 2025 News, advocacy and articles UK ME Association awards DecodeME the Howes Goudsmit Award 2025 Dr Charles Shepherd of the MEA said: "Having been involved with some of the initial planning stages, and closely followed the progress of DecodeME, I know that a huge...

Week beginning 18th August 2025 News, advocacy and articles Ireland The Health Service Executive (HSE) in Ireland received funding to create the first HSE National Clinical Guideline for ME. The new guideline will aim to improve understanding, diagnosis, treatment, and management of ME in...

Week beginning 11th August 2025 News, advocacy and articles Denmark A journal on health and politics, Sundhedspolitisk Tidsskrift, writes about a protest letter to the Danish Health Authority signed by 849 ME patients and carers. The letter criticises the Danish Health Authority for having...

Week beginning 4th August 2025 Part 2 of 2 Other news, advocacy and articles Severe ME Day 2025 August 8th is the awareness day for Severe ME. This is a day to raise awareness for severe ME and to remember those who suffer from and have died from severe ME. Heartfelt and warm thoughts to...

Week beginning 4th August 2025 Part 1 of 2 DecodeME results announced Research Preprint Initial findings from the DecodeME genome-wide association study of myalgic encephalomyelitis/chronic fatigue syndrome "DecodeME has provided the first robust evidence that genetic variation contributes...

For next week's news go to this thread: News in Brief - August 2025

This thread has a Science for ME 'News in Brief' post for each week in August 2025 by a team including @Trish, @Kalliope, @ahimsa and @SNT Gatchaman. Scroll down to see this week's news.

Week beginning 28th July 2025 Part 2 of 2 Research ME/CFS research Metabolic adaptation and fragility in healthy 3-D in vitro skeletal muscle tissues exposed to Chronic Fatigue Syndrome and Long COVID-19 sera — Mughal et al. "findings indicate that patient sera not only lowered the overall...

Week beginning 28th July 2025 Part 1 of 2 News, advocacy and articles PLOS BLOGS - Absolutely Maybe Six Months Later: What Their Response on ME/CFS Tells Us About the Cochrane Collaboration Hilda Bastian has written a new blog post on the Cochrane review on exercise therapy for ME/CFS...

Week beginning 21st July 2025 Part 2 of 2 Research ME/CFS research AI-driven multi-omics modeling of myalgic encephalomyelitis/chronic fatigue syndrome — Xiong et al. "Taken together, our dataset uncovers an array of correlations that although not causal, can further our understanding of...

Week beginning 21st July 2025 Part 1 of 2 News, advocacy and articles UK Courts and Tribunals Judiciary (trigger warning - suicide) Sarah-Jayne Lewis: Prevention of Future Deaths Report by coroner Debbie Rookes "In my opinion there is a risk that future deaths will occur unless action is...

Week beginning 14th July 2025 News UWV (Netherlands) The UWV benefits agency wrongly told several patients with ME/CFS that they could work a large part of the week or full-time. The Central Appeals Tribunal (CRvB) concluded this in an interim ruling. Article | Thread Bateman Horne Center...

Week beginning 7th July 2025 News, advocacy and articles #ThereForME The Tiger Who Came to Tea... and Stayed An important article by Long Covid Advocacy on severe ME: ".. an inverse relationship occurs in ME. The greater the need, the fewer interventions one receives. The more the illness...

Week beginning 30th June 2025 News, advocacy and articles Trial by Error by David Tuller Updated Medical Textbook Still Promotes Biopsychosocial Ideology On the recent 11th edition of Elsevier's "Kumar & Clark's Clinical Medicine", a standard textbook for medical education worldwide. It...

For next weeks news, go to this thread: News in Brief - July 2025