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Week beginning 24th February Part 1 of 2 parts News, advocacy and articles Australia National Health and Medical Research Council The NHMRC has been tasked by the Minister for Health to develop clinical practice guidelines for myalgic encephalomyelitis/chronic fatigue syndrome. Submissions...

Week beginning 17th February 2025 News, advocacy and articles SciShow Exercise Actually Makes Chronic Fatigue Syndrome Worse SciShow is a YouTube channel offering science news for a large audience. In this 8 minute video on why exercise doesn't work as a treatment for ME/CFS, they've managed...

Week beginning 10th February 2025 News, advocacy and articles Issues in Science and Technology "Centering Patients in Long COVID Research" by Brian Vastag Thorough article on the importance of including patients in research initiatives on Long Covid, on previous and current challenges and...

Week beginning 3rd February 2025 News, advocacy and articles Sweden The current guidelines for post covid and other infectious related illnesses (including ME/CFS) has received a lot of criticism, among other for promoting GET. The Swedish Government has now asked The National Board of Health...

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

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

Week beginning 27th January 2025 News, advocacy and articles Sweden Patient advocate and forum member Mitt Eremitage has gathered information about a planned study on fatigue by the psychologist Elin Lindsäter, who is part of the Oslo Chronic Fatigue Consortium. The information is to provide...

Week beginning 20th January 2025 Cochrane review Exercise Therapy for ME/CFS As we reported in December 2024, Cochrane has cancelled the new review process and republished the 2019 review by Larun et al. as a 2024 review with the only change being an editors note announcing the cancellation...

Week beginning 13th January 2025 News, articles and advocacy Europe The European ME Coalition (EMEC) gave an update on the Horizon Europe call on high-burden, under-researched conditions. Three funded projects have been announced and focus on endometriosis, familial hypercholesterolemia, and...

Week beginning 6th January 2025 News, articles and advocacy Emerge Australia Awards for Excellence in Journalism Nominations open until 28th February 2025. "We are delighted to recognise and honour the exceptional journalists who are dedicated to enhancing media coverage of myalgic...

Week beginning 30th December 2024 :emoji_blossom: Happy New Year to all our readers :emoji_blossom: News, articles and advocacy ME/CFS Skeptic Blogger ME/CFS Skeptic has written an excellent overview of the most interesting ME/CFS research studies of 2024. Studies discussed range across...

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

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

Week beginning 23rd December 2024 News, articles and advocacy UK Courts and Tribunals Judiciary Maeve Boothby O’Neill: Prevention of Future Deaths Report, October 8, 2024 Regulation 28 report to prevent future deaths The report was sent to some medical bodies and their responses have now been...

Week beginning 16th December 2024 Part 2 of 2 Research ME/CFS research Thesis Disenfranchising Talk and Communication Work of People with Chronic Overlapping Pain Conditions — Karly Quaack, Ph.D. "This dissertation explores important unanswered questions regarding interpersonal communication...

Week beginning 16th December 2024 :emoji_blossom: Seasonal good wishes to all our readers :emoji_blossom: Part 1 of 2 News, articles and advocacy UK Government Department of Health and Social Care with DfE and DWP Improving the experiences of people with ME/CFS: consultation outcome This...

Moderator note: Since Cochrane cancelled the update of the Larun 2019 review and republished it unchanged as the 2024 review there has been much discussion over several threads. Now that action is beginning to happen we have decided to bring discussion together on this thread. Posts about...

Week beginning 9th December 2024 News, articles and advocacy Scotland Deadline news reports that the Scottish Government will be making its first funding commitment for ME after a 22 year wait. The budget for 2025-2026 has outlined an "additional £4.5m funding to deliver new specialist support...

Week beginning 2nd December 2024 Part 2 of 2 Research ME/CFS research Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences Transcriptional reprogramming primes CD8+ T cells toward exhaustion in Myalgic encephalomyelitis/chronic fatigue syndrome — Iu et al. "it is currently unclear whether the T...

Week beginning 2nd December 2024 Part 1 of 2 News, articles and advocacy UK APPG The All Party Parliamentary Group for ME, as all APPG's, was laid down at the election. A new group is being launched, with its first meeting at 1700 to 1830 on 17th December 2024. The agenda will include...