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 […]
December 4, 2020 Jointly authored letter serves as a warning about the increasing number of COVID-19 patients experiencing post-viral complications. LOS ANGELES, CA — Twenty leading chronic disease stakeholders joined the Solve ME/CFS Initiative (Solve M.E.) in authoring a powerful letter urging Congress to fund millions of dollars in new National Institutes of Health (NIH) and […]
A recent article about COVID-19 “long haulers” in the peer-reviewed medical journal The Journal of the American Medical Association (JAMA) referenced Solve M.E. and our You + ME Registry and Biobank. In “As Their Numbers Grow, COVID-19 ‘Long Haulers’ Stump Experts,” writer Rita Rubin details the persistent symptoms of those long haulers who have yet […]
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 […]
Tell Your Senator to SUPPORT INCREASED FUNDING FOR POST-VIRAL-DISEASE RESEARCH INTO ME/CFS! Thanks to your hard work during ME/CFS Advocacy Week, the U.S. Senate is currently circulating our request to include ME/CFS research funding in the next COVID-19 package. Our champion, Senator Ed Markey, is leading our initiative to include ME/CFS research funding in future COVID-19 […]
Can you hear M.E. Now? Call Congress Today! We connected with over 47% of congress yesterday. But we’re not done yet! Today we’re focusing on phone calls to DC offices. Use the D.C. Remote Advocate kit to help you make your message *RING* true. Today, you can support our call for $60m of new funding for […]
While COVID-19 has changed where we work, it has not stopped how hard we work on behalf of the ME/CFS community. Following several months of development, user testing and partnership with the community, we are fast approaching the launch of the You + M.E. Registry! We’ve received several inquiries and thoughts regarding approaches to track […]
“First I would like to say thank you for finding a way to make Advocacy Week happen despite the challenges we all now face. It is amazing what Solve M.E. has achieved. It brings me so much hope. I have longed to join an advocacy day for a while, but the traveling made it impossible. I […]