Congress Approves Over a Billion Dollars to Study Long-COVID: Implications for ME/CFS
Emily Taylor of Solve ME/CFS Initiative reported that Congress has approved $1.15 billion (yes that’s a billion with a “B”) for the NIH to fund long-COVID research and clinical trials. $100 million will specifically be used for the rapid acceleration...
GET This! NICE Pulls the Plug on Graded Exercise Therapy and CBT as Treatments for ME/CFS
“There is no therapy based on physical activity or exercise that is effective as a treatment or cure for ME/CFS”. NICE Who would have thought? We knew that National Institute for Health and Care Excellence (NICE) – the executive branch in the U. responsible for...
HR 7057 – Historic Effort to Increase Funding for ME/CFS Gains Steam
H.R. 7057 – The Understanding COVID-19 Subsets and ME/CFS Act is back. There’s a reason this is taking so long. It’s the same reason that it’s taken 4 years of work to get to this point. This is not just an attempt to get more money for ME/CFS:...
Reflections on the MEAction Blog, An Apology – and a Promise
The #MEAction post (retitled after I calmed down to “#MEAction’s Support Needed On Bill to Increase NIH Funding”), has stirred up a lot. Boy, did it stir up a lot. It was understandable; the post was, after all, composed in quite a state of heat. I...
Opportunity Knocks – For Action on the Bill to Double ME/CFS Funding
Health Rising readers have gotten quite a few blogs on the effort to get Congress to dramatically increase NIH funding for ME/CFS (HR 7057) – and here’s one more. As so often happens, something has unexpectedly come up – and time is short. Congress...Lives Interrupted Latest Story
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