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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

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

Week beginning 23rd June 2024 News, advocacy and articles Australia National Health and Medical Research Council Members of the NHMRC ME/CFS Guideline Development Committee have been announced. Announcement | Thread Trial by Error by David Tuller Dutch Journalist Faces Off Against CBT/GET...

Week beginning 16th June 2025 News, advocacy and articles UK Parliament Minutes from the first joint meeting of the APPG groups on ME/CFS and Long Covid on 4th May are available. A government minister attended to hear concerns about planned benefit changes. "The APPG also heard presentations...

Week beginning 9th June 2025 News, advocacy and articles #ThereForME The importance of understanding rest Thoughtful reflections by LC/ME sufferer and former professional athlete Oonagh Cousins about the concept of resting. "Previously, an ability to rest and do less had marked me as...

Week beginning 2nd June 2025 Part 2 of 2. Research ME/CFS research Clinical and Translational Medicine Extracellular vesicle proteomics uncovers energy metabolism, complement system, and endoplasmic reticulum stress response dysregulation postexercise in males with myalgic...

Week beginning 2nd June 2025 Part 1 of 2 News, advocacy and articles The Sick Times "Emergency departments aren’t trained for Long COVID — and patients are paying the price" Article discussing problems with emergency care for Long Covid and ME/CFS patients along with some suggestions for how...

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

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

Week beginning 26th May 2025 Notice to our readers - forum software upgrade The Science for ME forum will be unavailable for a day or more on the weekend Saturday 7th and Sunday 8th June. This means publication of the weekly news will be delayed. Any delays to coming back on line will be...

Week beginning 19th May 2025 News, advocacy and articles UK Press Awards The winner of the Campaign of the Year award was the Times Newspaper for 'M.E. Awareness and Reform', including its coverage of the inquest into the death of Maeve Boothby O'Neill, daughter of senior Times journalist Sean...

Week beginning 12th May 2025 News, advocacy and articles USA - Solve ME Advocacy Week 2025 The registration deadline for Advocacy Week has been extended to May 27, 2025. Anyone in the USA is encouraged to volunteer, all activites are online, no experience necessary. Announcement | Thread...