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Week beginning 31st July 2023 Part 1 of 2 News and articles USA NIH selects Dr. Jeanne Marrazzo as director of the National Institute of Allergy and Infectious Diseases This is the department that was run by Dr. Fauci, and deals with infections including COVID and Long COVID. NIH...

For next week's news go to: News in Brief - August 2023

This thread has a Science for ME 'News in Brief' post for each week in August 2023 by a team including @Trish, @Kalliope and @ahimsa. Scroll down to see this week's news.

Week beginning 24th July 2023 News, articles and advocacy The Atlantic Fatigue Can Shatter a Person A brilliant article by the Pulitzer price winning journalist Ed Yong on fatigue in diseases such as long COVID and ME/CFS. It discusses PEM and pacing, and medicine's and society's scepticism...

Week beginning 17th July 2023 News, articles and advocacy MEActionUK's excellent rapid response to the article by White et al, reported in last week's news, has been published by the journal JNNP. "The ME community support NICE and reject the misguided attack in ‘Anomalies in the review...

Week beginning 10th July 2023 Part 2 of 2 UK 2021 NICE ME/CFS Guideline - Commentary BMJ Journal of Neurology, Neurosurgery and Psychiatry Anomalies in the review process and interpretation of the evidence in the NICE guideline for chronic fatigue syndrome and myalgic encephalomyelitis -...

Week beginning 10th July 2023 Part 1 of 2 News, articles and advocacy Australia Parliamentary Friends For ME/CFS "Emerge Australia along with members of the ME/CFS community and key stakeholders met in Canberra on Tuesday June 13th for the much awaited launch of the Parliamentary Friends of...

Week beginning 3rd July 2023 News, articles and advocacy Europe At the 9th Congress of the European Academy of Neurology on Underprioritized Neurology Conditions and Symptoms. One of the people participating in the discussion was Gracemarie Bricalli, representing the European ME Alliance...

For next week's news, go to this thread: News in Brief - July 2023

This thread has a Science for ME 'News in Brief' post for each week in July 2023 by a team including @Trish, @Kalliope and @ahimsa. Scroll down to see this week's news.

Week beginning 26th June 2023 Part 2 of 2 Research Biomedical ME/CFS research Frontiers in Neuroscience Cognitive impairment in long COVID and short duration ME patients is mediated by orthostatic hemodynamic changes - Vernon et al 256 participants. "Compared to healthy controls, the disease...

Week beginning 26th June 2023 Part 1 of 2 News, articles and advocacy Sweden A call from a number of specialists and the Swedish patient organisations for Covid, ME, and difficult-to-diagnose-infectious-diseases to invest in and develop specialist care for post-infectious diseases, rather...

Week beginning 19th June 2023 News, advocacy and resources USA - Bateman Horne Center "Push/Crash Cycle and Triggers in ME/CFS & Long Covid" This handout, part of their medical education series, talks about different triggers for PEM/PESE (post-exertional malaise/post-exertional symptom...

Week beginning 12th June 2023 News, advocacy and articles Australia Queensland scientists push for new national treatment guidelines for chronic fatigue syndrome Professor Sonya Marshall-Gradisnik joined politicians, ME/CFS patient representatives and other researchers from across the country...

Week beginning 5th June 2023 News, advocacy and articles UK DecodeME A reminder to spread the word about this important genetic study which needs many more participants in the UK with a diagnosis of ME/CFS. Spread the word | Take part | Thread USA The CDC posted information from the ME/CFS...

Week beginning 29th May 2023 News, advocacy and articles UK Action for ME FOI Report reveals shocking lack of specialist care The report is titled: "Patchy, Misunderstood and Overlooked - Implementation of the NICE Guideline [NG206] on [ME/CFS] in England - Freedom of Information Findings...

Go to this thread for the next weekly news: News in Brief - June 2023

This thread has a Science for ME 'News in Brief' post for each week in June 2023 by a team including @Trish, @Kalliope and @ahimsa. Scroll down to see this week's news.

Week beginning 22nd May 2023 Part 2 of 2 Research ME/CFS research IBRO Neuroscience Reports Orthostatic chronotropic incompetence in patients with ME/CFS - van Campen et al. "During tilt testing we found that in 134/362 (37%) patients with ME/CFS without POTS or hypotension, the heart rate...

Week beginning 22nd May 2023 Part 1 of 2 News, advocacy and articles UK ME Association survey: Count ME In "We are asking people to complete a short survey about their health experiences and the support they have received from the NHS and social care services." Survey | Thread UK ME...