In the News
Keep up to date with the latest news articles from around the world.
Articles represent the views of their authors and not ME/CFS SA. Always seek advice from a registered health practitioner before changing your care plan.
02 April, 2024
Long COVID Fatigue: The Unwelcome Gift That Keeps On Giving
Fatigue, sometimes profound, is one of the most common and debilitating features of long COVID. Its presence predicts far worse clinical outcomes, as evidenced by deaths and hospitalizations, than patients without fatigue.
02 April, 2024
Dr Matt Nisbet Running Brighton Marathon For ME Research UK
A Basingstoke GP is running Brighton Marathon in April to raise money for a medical charity supporting research into ME.
02 April, 2024
East Lothian Locals Trapped In Unfinished Stewart Milne Estate That's 'Falling Apart'
A Scottish man with ME says he is struggling to walk around his Stewart Milne estate after the housebuilder went into administration.
01 April, 2024
Biden’s $12 Billion For Women’s Health Should Be Just A Start
President Joe Biden signed an executive order that will create a $12 billion fund to improve our understanding of — and ideally treatments for — women’s health. It’s a welcome, if egregiously belated investment by the US government. And although it sounds like a big amount, there’s a lot of catching up to do. For example, one analysis found that conditions that overwhelmingly affect women, like migraines, headaches, endometriosis, anxiety disorders and chronic fatigue syndrome, are severely underfunded compared to conditions that predominantly affect men.
01 April, 2024
Chronic Fatigue Support Needs 'Urgent' Funds: Advocates
A national advocacy body for chronic fatigue sufferers has called on the federal government to urgently unlock research and funding into the condition, a year after a parliamentary committee recommended the moves.
01 April, 2024
Probiotics May Effectively Treat Autoimmune Diseases
Gut microbiota-based therapies may be able to improve a variety of autoimmune diseases, including fibromyalgia, psoriasis, juvenile idiopathic arthritis (JIA), lupus nephritis, systematic lupus erythematosus, ulcerative colitis, and Crohn’s disease, according to a study published in BMC Medicine.
01 April, 2024
Chronic Fatigue Syndrome Is 'Biological', Key Study Confirms
Scientists have now identified that Chronic Fatigue Syndrome (CFS), also known as Myalgic Encephalomyelitis (ME) is "unambiguously biological".
31 March, 2024
Sunflower Lanyard Project To Be Rolled Out In Cavan
The Cathaoirleach, Cllr Philip Brady (FF), is calling on Cavan County Council to raise more awareness around hidden disabilities. He discussed the matter through a notice of motion at this month’s meeting of the local authority. “I am calling for the rollout of the Sunflower Lanyard initiative in Co Cavan and throughout Ireland,” he explained.
31 March, 2024
Study Says 'Double Jointed' People At Higher Risk Of Long COVID
Do you have joints that move beyond the normal range of motion? A new study has revealed that individuals with joint hypermobility, often known as being "double jointed," are more likely to suffer from persistent fatigue linked to long COVID.
31 March, 2024
Trivialising Long Covid? Scientists And Media Covering ME/CFS In Australia Wrote The Playbook
A group of Australian scientists recently gas-lit an entire global community of more than 65 million sick people. Specifically, on Long Covid Awareness Day, Queensland state department researchers, spearheaded by its chief health officer, pushed a half-baked study to trivialise the devastating condition. However, the situation has direct implications for people living with ME/CFS in Australia. In the long-standing context of the medical and media establishments’ disgusting abuse of chronically ill people in Australia – it’s plain to see how it could do this so easily. In particular, an elitist and vested psychologising lobby has hijacked care and support for millions of people living with myalgic encephalomyelitis/chronic fatigue syndrome (ME/CFS)- a similar post-viral disease. In Australia, as elsewhere, they have paved the way to punching down on long Covid patients. And if the experience of people living with ME/CFS is anything to go by, the abuse has only just begun.
