Major Opportunities Knock for ME/CFS, Fibromyalgia and Long COVID
Advocacy Month Details Waiting on Broken Budget Our advocacy is expanding. We have more advocates every year. We’re reaching more people, recruiting more allies to our side every year – so it makes sense that Advocacy Week is no longer Advocacy Week but...
The NIH Kicks Chronic Fatigue Syndrome (ME/CFS) in the Teeth – Again. It May Regret It
The NIH recently found a way to kick the chronic fatigue syndrome (ME/CFS) community in the teeth again. Jack Reacher couldn’t have done it any better. You have to give it to the NIH: they’re nothing if not masters of disappointment. Almost five years ago...
NIH Launches Mammoth Effort to Understand and Treat Long COVID
The big National Institutes of Health (NIH) effort on long COVID is rolling. It hasn’t come easily or quickly and the NIH has a lot of catching up to do. The world has known long COVID is a serious problem since last summer, but you wouldn’t have known it...
The Education of an Unlikely ME Advocate
Art Mirin seemed hardly the person to lead a movement. A retired mathematician who’d been creating advanced climatological models at the famed Lawrence Livermore National Laboratory in California, Art had never done advocacy before. He had a sick daughter,...
Celebrating ME/CFS Awareness Day – In So Many Different Ways
Tom Hennessy and International Advocacy/Awareness Day Tom Hennessy created International ME/CFS/FM Advocacy day over 30 years ago. A fierce and creative fighter, Tom’s advocacy career was unfortunately curtailed by a tremendously difficult case of ME/CFS. To...Lives Interrupted Latest Story
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