Together with six other organizations, we have submitted a proposal to the National Center for Health Statistics (NCHS) to add myalgic encephalomyelitis/chronic fatigue syndrome (ME/CFS) to the neurological chapter of the International Classification of Diseases (ICD-10-CM). Read our press release here. Today, ME/CFS does not exist in the US ICD-10-CM. Instead, most US doctors assign […]
On Tuesday, June 15, Solve M.E. President and CEO Oved Amitay joined other experts as a participant in the second seminar in a series presented by the World Health Organization (WHO) designed to improve our understanding of the Post COVID-19 condition and optimize the health of patients who have suffered from COVID-19. In the first […]
Advocacy Week Kickoff Event with Rep. Jamie Raskin (MD-08) The 5th Annual Solve M.E. Advocacy Week will take place from Sunday, April 18, 2021 to Saturday, April 24, 2021. Please join us for a week of advocacy activities that everyone can participate in from home! We’re thrilled to announce that our kickoff event will take […]
This year the one-year anniversary of the first confirmed case of COVID-19 in the United States. It’s difficult to overstate the impact the COVID-19 pandemic has had on the world and on life in the United States. The past year has presented challenges none of us could have anticipated — a devastating loss of human […]
After months of collaborative development with community members and researchers, we opened the You + ME Registry for enrollment in June 2020. You + ME is driven by a big vision — building a community of thousands contributing health information to create the largest dataset ever for ME/CFS research. Many research projects have come to […]
Watch now: The H.R. 7057 Legislative Cafe Chat Hosted by Emily Taylor Earlier this year, Representative Jaime Raskin introduced H.R. 7057, the Understanding COVID–19 Subsets and ME/CFS Act. This landmark legislation will authorize $60 million over the next four years to expand the National Institutes of Health (NIH) research into post-viral ME/CFS and empower the […]
Join Solve M.E. for an H.R. 7057 Legislative Cafe Chat on Sept. 9! We’ve received dozens of emails from you asking questions about the historic legislation endorsed by Solve M.E. We are thrilled with the engagement you’ve demonstrated with H.R. 7057. To answer your questions, Solve M.E. Advocacy and Engagement Director Emily Taylor has written […]
Hi Solve M.E. Community! In case we haven’t met before, my name is Emily Taylor, and I’m the Director of Advocacy and Community Relations at Solve M.E. Over the last few weeks, I’ve received dozens of emails from you asking questions about the historic legislation we’ve endorsed. We are thrilled with the engagement you’ve demonstrated […]
Watch now! The Congressional Roundtable on Women’s Chronic Illness During a Pandemic Last week, as part of our collaboration with the Congressional Bipartisan Women’s Caucus, Miles for Migraine, and the Headache and Migraine Policy Forum, Solve M.E. hosted a virtual congressional briefing on COVID-19, ME/CFS, and Migraine Disease. Moderated by two-time Emmy nominated TV host, […]
Solve M.E. Chief Executive Officer Oved Amitay and Solve M.E. Research Advisory Council Member Dr. Anthony L. Komaroff (Professor of Medicine at Harvard Medical School and Senior Physician at Brigham & Women’s Hospital in Boston) recently published an op-ed piece about the urgent need to study the emerging connection between COVID-19 long-haulers and ME/CFS in […]