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.
04 March, 2025
Morgan Freeman Appears At Oscars 2025 With Single-Gloved Hand Amid Fibromyalgia Struggle
HOLLYWOOD, CALIFORNIA: Morgan Freeman’s appearance at the Oscars 2025 with a single black glove on his left hand reignited discussions about his long-term health struggles with fibromyalgia, a condition that has plagued him since a devastating car accident in 2008.
04 March, 2025
House Of Hair Newton Aycliffe Named In Echo's Top Ten
A Newton Aycliffe salon owner with Fibromyalgia says she is "buzzing" to make The Northern Echo's top ten finalist list for the best hairdresser competition.
04 March, 2025
Adventures In An Electric Wheelchair - Part 10
This is the story of ME/CFS sufferer Tamsin persuading herself to buy an electric wheelchair so that she can experience the wide world again.
03 March, 2025
UK Government Hit With Formal Complaint Over Discredited NHS Treatments For ME/CFS
It has been more than three years since the launch of a vital campaign to get the government to set up reporting mechanisms for patients harmed by controversial non-pharmaceutical medical treatments. Specifically, the campaign sought to right the appalling wrong that was decades of controversial treatments clinicians had forced on myalgic encephalomyelitis (ME/CFS) patients.
03 March, 2025
Gut-Brain Axis Linked To Fibromyalgia Severity
Disorders of gut-brain interaction (DGBI) were associated with increased fibromyalgia symptom severity in women, according to findings published in the European Journal of Pain.
02 March, 2025
The Science Behind Long COVID Brain Fog
The coronavirus disease 2019 (COVID-19) pandemic caused unprecedented mortality worldwide and had higher morbidity rates than any disease in the past few decades. However, the detrimental impacts of severe acute respiratory syndrome coronavirus 2 (SARS-CoV-2) infections continued long after the pandemic was brought under control through concerted vaccination efforts across the globe.
02 March, 2025
The Number Of People With Chronic Conditions Is Soaring. Are We Less Healthy Than We Used To Be – Or Overdiagnosing Illness?
Are ordinary life experiences, bodily imperfections and normal differences being unnecessarily pathologised? One doctor argues just that.
01 March, 2025
Genetic Associations Of Post-Treatment Lyme Disease Syndrome
The following is a summary of “A comparison of genome-wide association analyses of persistent symptoms after Lyme disease, fibromyalgia, and myalgic encephalomyelitis – chronic fatigue syndrome,” published in the February 2025 issue of BMC Infectious Diseases by Hirsch et al.
01 March, 2025
Health Report: Proposal To Recognize Chronic Fatigue Syndrome Advances In State Legislature
JUNEAU, Alaska (KTUU/KTVF) - A day recognizing Myalgic Encephalomyelitis, commonly known as Chronic Fatigue Syndrome, or ME/CFS — which supporters hope will raise awareness about the lesser known disease — has advanced to the state House of Representatives, after SB60 passed the state Senate in a 19-0 vote.
28 February, 2025
Aldergrove Charity Hit With Second Break-In Under A Year
The warehouse of the Fibromyalgia Wellspring Foundation in Vancouver was broken into for a second time in just a year last week. For nearly two decades, Cheryl Young has dedicated her life to the foundation and the charity’s thrift store in Aldergrove.
