In the News
Keep up to date with the latest news articles from around the world.
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27 July, 2024
Doctors Held ‘Outdated’ Views About ME, Inquest Into Sufferer’s Death Hears
A hospital treating a young woman suffering from chronic fatigue syndrome was warned a month before she died about the “dogma” and “outdated” views some doctors held about the debilitating condition, an inquest heard.
27 July, 2024
David J Black: Is Anyone Listening? Does Anyone Care?
On the 1st of May Sir Sajid Javid initiated a parliamentary debate on the UK’s abysmal record on the care and treatment of ME/CFS patients, whose ranks are now much augmented by Long Covid sufferers. There was an almost identical debate held in February 2018 in which the member for Glasgow North West, Carol Monaghan MP, damned a grossly manipulated research trial (PACE) into ME/CFS as “one of the biggest medical scandals of the 21st century”.
27 July, 2024
Chronic Fatigue Syndrome Lacks Specialist Facilities
There is a severe shortage of specialist hospital wards to treat patients with chronic fatigue syndrome as well as a lack of research into the disease, an inquest into the death of a sufferer has heard, writes Rod Minchin from PA.
26 July, 2024
COVID-19 Won't Raise Odds For Chronic Fatigue Syndrome: Study
COVID-19 doesn’t raise a person’s risk of developing chronic fatigue syndrome more than any other infectious disease, a new study finds. The rate of chronic fatigue syndrome following a brief illness was roughly the same between people who caught COVID and those who came down with some other malady, researchers reported July 24 in the journal JAMA Network Open.
26 July, 2024
Study Finds Limited Evidence For Massage Therapy's Effectiveness In Pain Relief
A recent study published in JAMA Network Open reviews evidence to determine whether massages effectively relieve pain.
26 July, 2024
If You're Feeling Tired All The Time You Might Actually Have A Common Condition
Chronic fatigue syndrome, also known as myalgic encephalomyelitis (ME), has been in the news a lot recently as many people in the UK have experienced it as a result of a viral infection such as coronavirus.
25 July, 2024
Breakthrough Study: Anarti's Ayurvedic CBD Oil Shows Promising Results For Fibromyalgia And Chronic Pain Relief
Anarti Therapeutics is proud to announce promising data from an in vitro study conducted at the Dabur Research Foundation. The study's results demonstrate a possible biologic mechanism of action for how Anarti Therapeutics' Ayurvedic CBD Relief Oil helps relieve chronic pain associated with fibromyalgia.
25 July, 2024
Long COVID & ME/CFS: The Similarities Are Uncanny
An estimated two million people in England and Scotland were experiencing symptoms of long COVID as of March 2024, according to the Office for National Statistics. Of these, 1.5 million said the condition was adversely affecting their day-to-day activities. As more research emerges about long COVID, some experts are noticing that its trigger factors, symptoms, and causative mechanisms overlap with myalgic encephalomyelitis/chronic fatigue syndrome (ME/CFS).
25 July, 2024
Hidden Connection Discovered: New Research Links Brain Inflammation To Muscle Fatigue
Researchers at Washington University have discovered that brain inflammation can cause muscle dysfunction by releasing a protein that travels to the muscles, impairing their function. In experiments with fruit flies and mice, they found that this protein reduces energy production in muscle mitochondria. The research also identified possible ways to block this process, which could help treat or prevent muscle wasting in conditions like bacterial infections, Alzheimer’s, and long COVID.
24 July, 2024
NHS Treatment For ME Patients To Be Examined
A lack of NHS treatment for people with myalgic encephalomyelitis (ME) is set to be interrogated at an inquest into the death of a 27-year-old woman, who died after being discharged from hospital. Maeve Boothby-O’Neill died in October 2021, after battling myalgic encephalomyelitis – also referred to as chronic fatigue syndrome (CFS) – for more than half her life, until she was no longer able to eat or drink. She faced barriers to receiving proper care right up until her death as she tried to convince doctors her illness was real – which her parents say also caused delays in her receiving end-of-life care. A long-awaited government delivery plan to improve NHS services has been beset by delays since being unveiled by Sajid Javid two years and three health secretaries ago.
