The Squeaky Wheel: the SMCI’s Professional Advocate Emily Taylor on Strategically Making Noise for Chronic Fatigue Syndrome
The ME/CFS community has been making valiant stabs at advocacy for quite a while. The stabbing, though, is over. That kind of ad hoc effort disappeared when the Solve ME/CFS Initiative (SMCI) hired the first full-time advocate for ME/CFS ever – Emily Taylor....
Medscape’s Chronic Fatigue Syndrome (ME/CFS) Program Reaches Deep into the Medical Community
With its regular news updates, information on drugs and diseases, quizzes, conference overviews, and educational courses, Medscape, which just turned 20 years old, strives to be a kind of one-stop shop for medical professionals (and consumers). It appears to be...
Dr Nath Talks on the ME/CFS NIH Intramural Study
Clutching our little maps we gloomily stared at the rain pelting the grey labyrinth that was the NIH. We were utterly lost and very late for our appointment with Dr. Nath, the leader of the NIH Intramural study on ME/CFS. Thankfully, we eventually found our way and...
The Lie in the NIH’s “Accelerating Research on ME/CFS” Slogan
“We’re saying that ME/CFS is a program priority now…..Give us a chance to prove we’re serious – because we are.” Francis Collins “We recognize and empathize with the suffering experienced by people with ME/CFS and their frustration that so little is known...
NIH Brings in New Faces and Looks to the Future in Accelerating ME/CFS Research Conference
Conferences are exciting because they’re virtually the only place one can go to learn about breaking research. The NIH ME/CFS conference, with its bevy of new faces that’s taking place on the NIH campus itself on April 4th and 5th, certainly fulfills that...StudyME
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