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.
12 March, 2025
Lindus Health And Tiefenbacher Group Launching Clinical Trial To Advance ME/CFS Research And Treatment
BOSTON, March 6, 2025 /PRNewswire/ -- Lindus Health, the "anti-CRO" running radically faster, more reliable clinical trials, and Tiefenbacher Group, a leading healthcare company providing best-in-class solutions along the entire pharmaceutical value chain, have announced their collaboration on a clinical trial for Myalgic Encephalomyelitis/Chronic Fatigue Syndrome (ME/CFS).
12 March, 2025
Mapping Fatigue: Discovering Brain Regions And Genes Linked To Fatigue Susceptibility
Research published in the Journal of Translational Medicine.
12 March, 2025
Compound Harnesses Cannabis' Pain-Relieving Properties Without Side Effects
Researchers have developed a compound that relieves pain in mice but doesn't affect the brain, thereby avoiding mind-altering side effects and abuse potential. The custom-designed molecule, derived from cannabis, may provide an alternative to opioids for treating chronic pain.
11 March, 2025
Breaking Down The Gender Health Gap
The gender health gap is a term some of you may know well, while others might have only come across it in passing. You may have never heard of it at all. While awareness of this issue varies, it's a critically important topic that impacts women's health in ways that demand our full attention. This gap represents a serious form of gender inequality in healthcare.
11 March, 2025
Easter Fundraiser To Support ME/CFS Research To Be Held In Twyford
A special Easter Extravaganza will raise vital funds for The ME/CFS Alliance, an organisation dedicated to increasing biomedical research into Myalgic Encephalomyelitis/Chronic Fatigue Syndrome and related conditions such as Long Covid.
11 March, 2025
5 Years Later, Women Are Still Living With Long Covid
March 2020. Say that date, and everyone will shudder. The beginning, for most of us, of the Covid pandemic. Everyone knows that time period well, what it did to our lives, the lives we lost and the devastation that came with it. Then, life seemingly went back to “normal” — but not for everyone.
10 March, 2025
Can't Afford To Be Sick: New Zealand Woman's Benefit Cut To $55 Because She's In Hospital
If a person in New Zealand spends more than 13 weeks in hospital, their benefit is automatically cut to $55 a week. Some patients and advocates say it’s not enough to survive on and the automatic process further punishes people who are too unwell to fight it. Rhiannon Purves has been bedridden in Wellington Hospital for months. Her entire life is confined to four walls as she is unable to walk and is hardly able to speak.
10 March, 2025
Marking Long Covid Awareness Day
Volunteers will be handing out more than 1,000 leaflets outside Waverley Station in Edinburgh hoping to raise awareness of Long Covid and ME/CFS (Myalgic Encephalomyelitis/Chronic Fatigue Syndrome). This leaflet drop will mark Long Covid Awareness Day and the fifth anniversary of the global pandemic.
10 March, 2025
Q&A: The Role Of Emerging Technologies In The Future Of Pain Management
According to Chris Robinson, MD, PhD, a future with no acute and chronic pain is much further down the line than optimists may expect. However, throughout his work researching new technologies for the treatment of pain, he believes there is a future where chronic is mitigated beyond what has been capable in the past.
09 March, 2025
I'm A Long COVID Researcher—And I Have Long COVID
An interview with US long-COVID researcher and sufferer Alison Cohen, Ph.D., MPH.
