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For next week's news go to this thread: News in Brief - December 2024

This thread has a Science for ME 'News in Brief' post for each week in December 2024 by a team including @Trish, @Kalliope, @ahimsa and @SNT Gatchaman. Scroll down to see this week's news.

Week beginning 25th November 2024 Part 2 of 2 Research ME/CFS research Nature Communications Medicine Discriminating Myalgic Encephalomyelitis/Chronic Fatigue Syndrome and comorbid conditions using metabolomics in UK Biobank — Huang et al. "We present a lipoprotein perspective on ME/CFS...

Week beginning 25th November 2024 Part 1 of 2 News, articles and advocacy Europe On November 12, 2024, the first post-election meeting of the MEP Interest Group on Brain Health and Neurological Conditions took place at the European Parliament, Brussels. Gracemarie Bricalli, President of the...

Week beginning 18th November 2024 News, articles and advocacy Broken Battery ME/CFS Scandal Explainer (Myalgic Encephalomyelitis/Chronic Fatigue Syndrome) An excellent and informative video by forum member Adam pwme containing all the important details in the history of ME and what has become...

Week beginning 11th November 2024 News, articles and advocacy The Sick Times - Still Here, November 15: Links and transcript The latest podcast episode celebrates the one year anniversary of The Sick Times. Link below includes a summary and transcript. Podcast | Thread Scotland - The Times...

Week beginning 4th November 2024 News, articles and advocacy A life hidden - The Trouble With Recovery Stories by Naomi Whittingham Wise reflections on why media recovery stories also have difficult and complicated aspects to them: "Recovery stories will very often claim that a shift in...

For next week's news go to this thread: News in Brief - November 2024

This thread has a Science for ME 'News in Brief' post for each week in November 2024 by a team including @Trish, @Kalliope, @ahimsa and @SNT Gatchaman. Scroll down to see this week's news.

Week beginning 28th October 2024 News, articles and advocacy UK #ThereForME have sent a letter, co-signed by 28 organisations and smaller initiatives, to Layla Moran MP (chair of the UK government Health and Social Care Select Committee). "The letter points to inadequacies, present and...

Week beginning 21st October 2024 Part 2 of 2 Research ME/CFS research JCI Insight Immune exhaustion in ME/CFS and long COVID — Natalie Eaton-Fitch et al. "both the upregulation (KIR2DL5A/B) and downregulation (HLADQA1 and HLADQB1) of genes associated with antigen presentation suggest a...

Week beginning 21st October 2024 Part 1 of 2 News, articles and advocacy The Conversation Ignored, blamed, and sometimes left to die - a leading expert in ME explains the origins of a modern medical scandal A beautifully written insight article by Chris Ponting on how ME patients have become...

Week beginning 14th October 2024 News, articles and advocacy The Guardian Maeve Boothby O´Neill died because of a discredited view of ME. How was this allowed to happen? An excellent article by George Monbiot on some of the background for the appalling treatment of ME patients. Monbiot...

Week beginning 7th October 2024 News, articles and advocacy USA Open Access Government Creating a Research Home for ME/CFS, Long Covid, and others" Op-ed by Emily Taylor, President and CEO of Solve M.E on the importance of more research into infection-associated chronic conditions and...

Week beginning 30th September 2024 Part 2 of 2 Research ME/CFS research Medical Hypotheses Chronic fatigue syndrome and multiple sclerosis have reduced craniospinal compliance and dilated pressurized bridging cortical veins - G & A Bateman The authors speculate that findings about cortical...

Week beginning 30th September 2024 Part 1 of 2 News, articles and advocacy Cochrane Review Exercise therapy for CFS It is 5 years since Cochrane published the 2019 version of the Larun et al review on 2nd October 2019, and set up a process intended to produce an updated review in two years...

For next week's news go to this thread: News in Brief - October 2024

This thread has a Science for ME 'News in Brief' post for each week in October 2024 by a team including @Trish, @Kalliope, @ahimsa and @SNT Gatchaman. Scroll down to see this week's news.

Week beginning 16th September 2024 News, articles and advocacy USA A group of leading ME researchers have sent an open letter to the NIH Director, Monica Bertagnolli, urging her to include ME/CFS in the RECOVER Initiative on Long Covid. The letter is signed by Ian Lipkin, Anthony Komaroff...

Week beginning 9th September 2024 News USA ME/CFS patients needed for a PET/MRI study Principal Investigator: Micheal VanElzakker, PhD, Massachusetts General Hospital "Survey, Personal health tracking, Blood draw, Injection or IV, MRI scan, PET scan may be required" Details | Thread USA...