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" What is Lyme disease? How ticks spread the disease, and the symptoms to watch out for Natasha Holt Lyme disease is an infectious illness spread by the bite of ticks, with around 3,000 new cases in the UK every year. But the symptoms of the disease can often be mistaken for other conditions...

So many things I don't like about this article but thought I would leave it up to Australian advocates to pick up on. " Running to raise awareness Shepparton chronic fatigue sufferers have joined forces and will take part in a weekly parkrun event ahead of a national awareness day next...

The discovery of a subset of mitochondria that have a different type of function. https://phys.org/news/2018-04-scientists-cells-mitochondria-specialized-fats.amp The full paper is here,

Following the publication of the Forward-ME group letter to the Science Media Centre (SMC) to (http://www.meassociation.org.uk/2018/04/forward-me-to-science-media-centre-retract-and-replace-your-factsheet-on-cfs-me-05-april-2018/) @JohnTheJack helped me to track down an old article written by...

News article from the Shropshire Star A nice story but my bolded bits stand out to me as refreshing change in how ME is reported! "The sculpture being created by The British Ironwork Centre in Oswestry, will be unveiled at The Shrewsbury and Telford Hospital NHS Trust’s charity Fun Day on...

" A 25-year-old beauty queen Elisha Hudson from Norfolk met with an unfortunate fate as she recently got diagnosed with an untreatable brain tumor following a series of terrible headaches. After often feeling exhausted and depressed for days that led her to quit her job, the recently crowned...

The Herald: ME sufferers welcome 'unreliable' stamp on exercise report http://www.heraldseries.co.uk/news/16115734.ME_sufferers_welcome_criticism_of_report_that_told_them_to__exercise_more_/

There's nothing new in this article from 17th March 2018. It gives a short introduction to ME and biomedical research, debunks GET and CBT as treatments and writes about the research at Griffith University in Australia. The article was first published last year, and is now published again...

"ABSTRACT ME (also known as chronic fatigue syndrome), a medical disorder of unknown aetiology, generated considerable media attention in the late 1980s and during the 1990s. Patients insisted they suffered from an organic disease, while certain lay and medical commentators construed the...

" Journalism’s a funny old trade. It’s sometimes difficult to get a sense of what difference, if any at all, your reporting is having. Indeed, in my experience, a lengthy and difficult investigation that uncovers a scandal or wrongdoing can illicit less feedback than a quirky ‘and finally’...

Well written exhaustive article about ME/CFS, lack of funding, politics, advocacy and current research. Includes an excellent chronology of ME/CFS since 1934. http://www.asbmb.org/asbmbtoday/201803/Feature/ME/

Long piece (from last year but republished) "Myalgic encephalomyelitis sufferer Anne Brennan writes about her long, painful, frustrating battle with the disease that has stolen her once full and vibrant life Five years ago, I was flying high: I was a partner in my Dublin law firm, a zealous...

I thought this was interesting, the significant discovery of how mitochondrial DNA ends up outside the mitochondria, where it can potentially trigger autoimmune conditions. https://medicalxpress.com/news/2018-02-dna-scientists-rogue-molecule-trigger.amp? There is a video clip showing the...

Yesterday there were two articles about ME in the Swedish tabloid paper Aftonbladet. I wasn't able to google translate these articles for some reason.. Others are very welcome to have a go! Aftonbladet "Det enda jag tänkt på i tre år är den här jävla sjukdomen" The only thing I've thought about...

Not too bad (just avoid the usual ignorant reader's comments at the end of the article): http://www.dailymail.co.uk/femail/article-5358509/I-played-Kate-Wills-reception-struck.html

https://www.thetimes.co.uk/article/how-it-feels-to-treat-your-own-mystery-illness-9lmt5d2x5 Mentions ME a lot, but then it turns out he didn't have it. It's very confusing and makes some false statements. “I must say,” he said, “you don’t strike me as particularly depressed.” “No,” I agreed...

Not sure if this has been posted. (MD is a member of S4ME) Clinical Guidance for ME: “Evidence-Based” Guidance Gone Awry Mary Dimmock January 2018 " This article is intended as a high-level summary of key issues in the conduct of reviews of the ME evidence-base that have resulted in flawed...

The author has ME. " 6 February 2018 — 11:00pm As recently as 1921, MS (multiple sclerosis) was erroneously considered more common in men. By the late 1940s, a more even gender split was presumed. By 1960 it was posited that women might actually be slightly more prone to the condition. With the...

http://www.telegraph.co.uk/news/2018/02/05/meditation-does-not-make-better-person-study-finds/ Yet more evidence of methodological flaws & bias in psych research? what?! never! :whistle::rolleyes:

Article is about being cured with the Perrin technique. ".............. Rita, of Staffordshire, Stafford, was ill for about 14 months, but in January 2003 she found hope through her daughter. Her daughter found out through a chance conversation at work that the daughter of her director had...