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.
20 July, 2024
Brain Inflammation Triggers Muscle Weakness After Infections
Research reveals how brain inflammation triggers extreme muscle weakness across several diseases, including viral infection, bacterial infection and Alzheimer's disease. The study, in fruit flies and mice, also identified ways to block this process, which could have implications for treating or preventing the muscle wasting sometimes associated with inflammatory diseases, including bacterial infections, Alzheimer's disease and long COVID.
19 July, 2024
Ōmokoroa: Radio Station Run From CFS/ME Sufferer’s Bed
Housebound music enthusiast Bradley Simmonds from Ōmokoroa — who suffers from chronic fatigue syndrome/myalgic encephalomyelitis or CFS/ME — runs his own radio station from the comfort of his own bed. The 46-year-old creates a 90-minute show every few weeks full of gags, fun banter about television shows and movies, quotes and music centred on his favourite decades the 80s and 90s. The show plays across 50 stations throughout New Zealand, Australia, the United Kingdom, the United States, Ireland and even in the Caribbean, Chile and Cook Islands.
19 July, 2024
From Long Covid To CFS – 7 Crippling Post-Viral Illnesses That Can Strike As Violet Affleck Shares Health Struggles
JUST a few years ago, the sight of someone wearing a face mask was commonplace. But a mask-wearing Violet Affleck made headlines this week after revealing she'd suffered from a "post viral condition" as she blasted current mask mandates at a Los Angeles city board meeting.
19 July, 2024
National Academies: Lack Of Research Into Chronic Conditions Is Hurting Women's Health
A gap in information surrounding conditions like endometriosis, pelvic floor disorders, migraines, and chronic fatigue syndrome is harming women's health, according to the National Academies of Sciences, Engineering, and Medicine.
18 July, 2024
For South Asian Women, It’s Not Just Medical Gaslighting That Pervades Their ME/CFS Diagnoses
Shehla Ali from About M.E. looks at the racism and discrimination that pervades healthcare for South Asian women living with myalgic encephalomyelitis (ME/CFS).
18 July, 2024
Electroacupuncture Results In Treating Chronic Fatigue Syndrome
A recent study by researchers from the Acupuncture Department of Baoan Traditional Chinese Medicine Hospital, affiliated with Guangzhou University of Chinese Medicine, has found that electroacupuncture significantly improves symptoms of chronic fatigue syndrome (CFS). The study compared the effects of electroacupuncture treatment with sham treatment and found notable improvements in fatigue levels and quality of life for patients receiving electroacupuncture.
18 July, 2024
What To Ask Your Patients With Somatic Symptom Disorder
Every doctor encounters patients who complain of symptoms without identifiable physical causes. According to a recent review in The Lancet, one third of all symptoms lack somatic explanations. How can these patients be helped, and what crucial question should always be asked? The Medscape German edition discussed this topic with Professor Peter Henningsen, a coauthor of the review, at the German Congress for Psychosomatic Medicine and Psychotherapy. Henningsen is the director of the Clinic and Polyclinic for Psychosomatic Medicine and Psychotherapy at the University Hospital Rechts der Isar of the Technical University of Munich, Munich, Germany.
17 July, 2024
Scientists Identify Possible Way To Block Muscle Fatigue In Long COVID, Other Diseases
Infections and neurodegenerative diseases cause inflammation in the brain. But for unknown reasons, patients with brain inflammation often develop muscle problems that seem to be independent of the central nervous system. Now, researchers at Washington University School of Medicine in St. Louis have revealed how brain inflammation releases a specific protein that travels from the brain to the muscles and causes a loss of muscle function.
17 July, 2024
Understanding The Roots Of Chronic Pain
Researchers have identified an ion channel that contributes to chronic pain, suggesting a new target for pain medication.
17 July, 2024
'I'm Scared My Daughter Will Die In Hospital'
A UK man says he is terrified his daughter will die in hospital due to what he says are failures in care by NHS staff. Pierre Naoum, 62, from Feltham in Hounslow, west London, says his daughter Carla, 23, who was diagnosed with myalgic encephalomyelitis/chronic fatigue syndrome (ME/CFS), is in severe pain and now weighs about 5st 9lbs (35kg) - down from 8st 3lbs (52kg) - after being admitted to West Middlesex Hospital due to problems with her feeding tube.
