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.
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.
09 March, 2025
Long Covid Warning: 'Silent Organ Damage Is A Real Problem'
Public health experts are urging the government to protect people from Long Covid, which they say could have already affected a quarter of a million New Zealanders.
08 March, 2025
Long Covid Update – A Threat That Continues To Demand A Strong Response
Long Covid (LC) remains a risk following any Covid-19 infection or reinfection. It includes a syndrome of long-term symptoms, a substantially increased risk of sudden death, and silent cell and organ damage that may predispose to later illness. Consequently, it produces a large burden of illness for our communities, healthcare system, and economy. Covid-19 vaccination reduces the risk of LC following Omicron infection, but there is still around a 10% risk of LC among vaccinated individuals.
08 March, 2025
Prospective Cohort Study Of Fatigue Before And After SARS-CoV-2 Infection In The Netherlands
Research published in Nature Communications.
