The Australian Greens party announced their policy on ME and CFS, it’s great news that they have a policy in the lead up to the upcoming federal...
Took me a while but here’s ME Australia’s response....
Hello, A few people expressed interest in reading ME Australia’s response to the draft report from the NHMRC Advisory Committee, I finally put it...
Thanks Michiel.
I’ve summarised the full paper here if you are interested ‘Children with chronic fatigue syndrome often wait more than a year for diagnosis’...
I’ve written a summary, interested to know what you think @Ravn @Michiel Tack I thought he was Australian and just lived in Belgium (amongst...
Merged thread Dr Christopher Armstrong is an Australian scientist researching Myalgic Encephalomyelitis (ME). He moved to California late last...
ME Australia will be publishing our feedback soon so I’ll provide a link when it’s up.
This will help people providing feedback to the NHMRC: It is definitely worth being familiar with the 2002 Australian chronic fatigue syndrome...
Hi, I asked Prof Don Staines about his background, stigma to the name ‘chronic fatigue syndrome’ in Australia and how far away are treatments and...
Here’s what the NHMRC says the terms of reference are (noting that they distinguish ME and CFS): Terms of reference The NHMRC Myalgic...
Here’s some history and background which may be of interest if you are making a submission...
Merged thread A study of Australian teenagers with chronic fatigue syndrome found CFS impacted their development of academic, cognitive and...
Released on the Friday before Christmas, the Australia’s National Health and Medical Research Advisory Commission’s draft report on Myalgic...
Glad that writing this article prompted some action!
Yes, Wessley and White still very influential here. As well as being the recipient, Australia also exported psychiatrist Ian Hickie’s work, he’s...
I contacted patient organisations about their response: Emerge won’t be contacting Macquarie Uni but the Allergy and Environmental Sensitivity...
Hi Andy, Asking the ‘how far away’ and ‘when’ questions seemed to be the questions people want answered and I thought might reveal more concrete...
Australia’s Health Minister, Greg Hunt, has met with us (ME Australia) twice about the urgent need for biomedical research funding and updated...
I can’t even imagine how bad the earlier versions were. As soon as the 2002 Australian guidelines were released they were condemned by the...
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