germany

The following has come to my attention (thanks @Philipp): http://dip21.bundestag.de/dip21/btd/19/126/1912632.pdf It is a reply to a list of questions which a few German MPs put to the government: The answers basically say that it's not the Government's concern, it's up to the scientists. The...

A ME/CFS conference takes place in Hamburg, Germany today. It's organized by the German Association for ME/CFS (their first conference). The conference is aimed at medical professionals and pwME. It's accredited for Continuing Medical Education (CME). Program - PD Dr. med. Patricia...

Hi everyone, greetings from Germany the situation here in Germany is still pretty bad, even some MPs are now familiar or at least involved with ME/CFS organisations. The following petition still needs more signatures so we can make more pressure to the Health Ministry.... its all in german but...

Facebook translate has supplied the English text https://www.facebook.com/dg.mecfs/posts/533015563773180

German doctors admit to mistakes in study critical of air pollutant limits (Deutsche Welle, 15.02.2018, https://www.dw.com/en/german-doctors-admit-to-mistakes-in-study-critical-of-air-pollutant-limits/a-47527138 )

For anyone interested in how things got going leading down the current path of BPS. It's a long article and sadly I did not read the whole thing. https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC5795290/

(I'm a little late with sharing this as I was very unwell.) :emoji_headphones: An amazing German radio feature on ME was broadcasted on July 5. :) We don't get many media reports on ME and most talk about tiredness (as the official ICD term is in German "Chronic Tiredness Syndrome"), so that's...

Germany: Restraining psychiatric patients requires court order https://www.dw.com/en/germany-restraining-psychiatric-patients-requires-court-order/a-44809053

The Institute of Social and Cultural Anthropology (University of Hamburg) shared this video on facebook today. "John Oliver discusses how and why media outlets so often report untrue or incomplete information as science."

Sorry for the long post. Translation by Google and me. Mistakes and bold/italics by me. http://www.zeit.de/news/2018-03/27/drei-todesfaelle-bornavirus-fuer-menschen-doch-gefaehrlich-180327-99-652639 Berlin/Greifswald-Riems (dpa) Three patients in Germany have died as a result of a viral...

Hi, I guess you've all seen the other thread (or got the email) that the planning for the Millions Missing protests have started: https://www.s4me.info/threads/millionsmissing-global-protest-may-12-2018.1992/ I opened this thread to talk about a possible protest (don't dare to use plural :))...

The new German "guideline tiredness" was published today. ME doesn't get its own guideline in Germany, only a chapter in the "guideline tiredness". It's basically the German NICE guideline for ME. It was last updated in 2011...

DEGAM is the "German Society for General Practice and Family Medicine". In the past, DEGAM has published a guideline about "tiredness". Patients and some doctors took up their voice and wrote to Degam about their contents about CFS. There was some anger due to an ME patient organisation's...

https://www.nutraingredients.com/Article/2017/12/14/Germany-sets-new-daily-limit-on-magnesium-supplements?utm_source=newsletter_daily&utm_medium=email&utm_campaign=14-Dec-2017&c=ctnELE8k8TsUr3aHvHw66GvDWXiNRI2b&p2= References a study on mild diarrhea after supplementing. Has decided that one...

November 2017 Read more at https://www.mecfs.de/mecfs-update-112017/

By Melanie Schickedanz "In October, another study was published in the international online journal Plos One , which confirms that the cellular bioenergetics of patients with myalgic encephalomyelitis is impaired. Myalgic encephalomyelitis, ME for short, is often titled with the trivializing...