
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.
30 January, 2025
There's A Lot Of Fog Around Brain Fog
Unfortunately, many more people have heard about brain fog because of the pandemic and long COVID. But the symptom was first mentioned centuries ago and has been associated with dozens of conditions. Norman and Tegan try to define brain fog and explain why it can be difficult to treat.
30 January, 2025
Collaboration Needed For Fibromyalgia Care
A video in which Shreena K. Gandhi, MD, from University of Kansas School of Medicine examined social security disability rates and how SSD criteria may clash with a trait disease like Fibromyalgia in new research.
29 January, 2025
Learning How To Rest Without Guilt
The start of 2025 has delivered Sarah Simons a massive slump in energy, so why waste any more of it by feeling guilty? That's easier said than done.
29 January, 2025
When Journal, Scientific Society, And Community Values Clash
An article by science communicator Hilda Bastian.
29 January, 2025
How Long Covid Restricts Those Affected: EPILOC Study Examines 1,500 People Formerly Infected With Coronavirus
Chronic fatigue and stress intolerance, cognitive complaints, a limited ability to work, and reduced quality of life: these are the findings of a large-scale, long-term study in Baden-Württemberg on suffering after a coronavirus infection. For EPILOC (Epidemiology of Long Covid), researchers at the university hospitals in Freiburg, Heidelberg, Tübingen and Ulm analysed more than 1,500 formerly infected people and found that two thirds of patients suffering from post-Covid syndrome have barely recovered in the second year of their illness. Despite worsened functional parameters, laboratory tests show almost no pathological findings.
28 January, 2025
Psychological Responses To Acute Exercise In Patients With Stress-Induced Exhaustion Disorder: A Cross-Over Randomized Trial
This study aims to compare the psychological responses to acute exercise between Exhaustion Disorder (ED) patients and healthy controls and assess response differences between low and moderate exercise intensities.
28 January, 2025
Chronic Fatigue Syndrome: Outcry Over Cochrane Decision To Abandon Review Of Exercise Therapy
A decision to cancel a planned update of a Cochrane systematic review of exercise therapy for chronic fatigue syndrome has met with anger from a group advising the review and the patient community. The decision has reignited calls for the review,1 which includes studies only up to May 2014, to be withdrawn for being outdated and misleading.
28 January, 2025
Distinct Pro-Inflammatory/Pro-Angiogenetic Signatures Distinguish Children With Long COVID From Controls
Recent proteomic studies have documented that Long COVID in adults is characterized by a pro-inflammatory signature with thromboinflammation. However, if similar events happen also in children with Long COVID has never been investigated.
27 January, 2025
‘Comedy Of Errors’: NDIS Reform Leaves Disabled Australians Fearing What Comes Next
With a new minister, a looming federal election and tight reform timelines, advocates point to a palpable undercurrent of fear around cuts to individual funding.
27 January, 2025
Higher Risk Of Long COVID In Women, Link Between SARS-CoV-2 And ME/CFS
Women are at an increased risk of developing long COVID, according to a new study. In a related report, researchers also noted that rates of myalgic encephalomyelitis/chronic fatigue syndrome are higher in people who have had SARS-CoV-2 infections. Both studies provide important information about long COVID and some hope for the development of tests or treatments for this continuing problem.