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full article here https://www.sbs.com.au/news/insight/i-m-18-years-old-and-living-with-three-chronic-conditions-you-can-t-see_1

Say No to the Cashless Debit Card! If the cashless debit card (CDC) is rolled out across Australia, this will affect YOU! The cashless debit card (CDC) is an income management program that has been trialled in a handful of sites around the country. ‪The CDC is compulsory for all Centrelink...

"Join the Medically Unexplained Symptoms Reference Group Date published: Feb 6, 2020, 18:45 PM Summary Contribute to producing a set of guiding principles on the clinical management of Medically Unexplained Symptoms (MUS). Description The following positions are available: 1x AFOEM Group...

Posted by Emerge Australia Apr 2019 Daniel Missailidis & Amber Jaa-Kwee - La Trobe University, Victoria University, Australia transcript here: https://mecfsconference.org.au/wp-content/uploads/2019/04/Day1Report.pdf eta: video has english subtitles eta2: Daniel Missailidis paper here...

https://www.thetimes.co.uk/article/perseverance-pays-off-for-joe-salisbury-as-he-claims-mens-doubles-title-at-australian-open-h7l6qrxgm

https://www.preprints.org/manuscript/202002.0029/v1

https://research.flinders.edu.au/rp/Blog/14483-A/new-opportunities-heart-foundation-partnership-engagement-grants-round-one-2020-now-open

Australian lifestyle https://www.theguardian.com/lifeandstyle/2020/jan/28/the-way-of-the-tired-person-life-rules-for-the-perpetually-exhausted Sometimes weariness is inevitable, but as one chronic fatigue sufferer has learned, when you can’t hit snooze on life there are ways of getting through...

Health-related quality of life in patients with myalgic encephalomyelitis/chronic fatigue syndrome: an Australian cross-sectional study https://link.springer.com/article/10.1007/s11136-019-02411-6

A personal account of one man's life with ME. It lacks depth but it gives a good idea of the impact on quality of life. Some technical bits are a bit off but it still adds up to a fair account of life with ME, how it unfolds, how much if affects, the social consequences, etc. I can say it very...

Interview starts at 2 hours 5 minutes: https://www.abc.net.au/radio/programs/rhiannapatrick/rhianna-patrick/11831752 Tweet from Mark Guthridge for those on twitter https://twitter.com/Dr_M_Guthridge/status/1214570526687006721

Dr Zack Shan (who has been working with the NCNED group at Griffith University, and is now based at University of Sunshine Coast) has been awarded a $1.2m grant to undertake an ME/CFS neuroimaging project. This is an NHMRC grant (NHMRC is the equivalent of NIH here in Australia), and it’s the...

From Clinicalguidelines.gov.au: Myalgic Encephalomyelitis - Adult & Paediatric: International Consensus Primer for Medical Practitioners 2012 Why are you developing this guideline?: The International guidelines are being reviewed to modify the content to suit the Australian medical context...

http://www.virology.ws/2019/11/07/viruses-that-jump-around/

The Australian government is calling for applications for its $3m Targeted Call for Research (TCR) into ME/CFS. TCR’s function similarly to NIH’s Request for Applications (RFA) in that they guarantee the funds go to the focus of the TCR and are designed to stimulate research in that area...

A few people have reported that they made submissions to the NHMRC (Australia) on the draft advisory committee report, but their submission is missing from the list published on the NHMRC website. Has this happened to your submission?

Occupational therapist Dr Julie Hughes, who has published two papers on CFS, is supervising students at the Australian Catholic University doing research into people with ME and CFS, conducting interviews on the impact. Chelsea Bartlett is the student doing the research and Rachel Makepeace...

Hello, Dr Elisha Josev is clinician-researcher at the Murdoch Children’s Research Institute, Royal Children’s Hospital, studying investigating short-term and long-term effects of paediatric ME and CFS (Jason et al definition) on brain structure and function...

Posts on this thread have been moved from different threads links added at the end of the posts The GP education program was possible thanks to a grant from ME/CFS Australia. Emerge Australia worked with ThinkGP, an organisation that offers free, continuing professional education for GPs in...

https://emerge.org.au/medical-research-future-fund-win-for-emerge-australia-epidemiology-and-health-economic-impacts-of-me-cfs/#.XYxesKjYo3E