Announcing the 2023 World ME Day Campaign
We’re joining our peer organizations at the World ME Alliance again for World ME Day 2023. This year’s theme focuses on the hallmark symptom of ME/CFS: post-exertional malaise. The goal […]
Key Takeaways from the New Federal Budget
Dear advocates, allies, and friends: I’d like to take one last look back at 2022 before we leap forward into an exciting new year. Starting with the Omnibus Appropriations bill, […]
Join Us For Solve M.E. Advocacy Week!
We are so excited to announce that next year’s Solve M.E. 2023 Advocacy Week will take place both virtually and in person throughout the week of April 17th to April […]
Solve M.E. & Community Partners Denounce Misleading New York Magazine Article
The article published in NY Magazine on Nov 4, 2022, “Has Long COVID Always Existed? The pandemic might not have spawned a new chronic illness but rebranded an old one,” […]
World ME Alliance calls on WHO Director General to recognize ME/CFS alongside Long Covid
On Wednesday 12th October Dr. Tedros Ghebreyesus, Director General of the World Health Organization, wrote an op-ed in the Guardian. In it, he lays clear the devastation that Long Covid […]
Study Reveals First Genetic Links in ME/CFS, Could Accelerate Development of New Treatments
Oxford-based biotech company PrecisionLife announced that their combinatorial analysis of genetic data links 14 genes to ME/CFS and identifies many patient subgroups. According to a press release, “This is the […]
Guest Blog: That Thing Called Pacing, by Ingebjørg Midsem Dahl
Ingebjørg Midsem Dahl was born in 1979 in Oslo, Norway, where she still lives. She came down with ME acutely in 1983. Ingebjørg has done written information work for major […]
Solve M.E. Board Member Testifies at Congressional Hearing
House Holds Hearing on “Understanding and Addressing Long Covid” This week, the Select Subcommittee on the Coronavirus Crisis held a hearing on understanding and addressing Long Covid and its consequences. […]
Guest Feature from Fiona Lowenstein: Chronic Illness Communities on Vaccines
The following essay is a guest feature from our friend, journalist Fiona Lowenstein. Fiona is the founder of Body Politic, a grassroots health justice organization for individuals with Long Covid. In […]
New Hope for Diagnosing and Treating Post-Infection Illnesses: Lessons Learned from HIV/AIDS
In this special webinar, Dr. Steven Deeks (Professor of Medicine-in-Residence at the University of California, San Francisco) will be hosted by Solve M.E. Medical Advisor Dr. David Hardy (former Director […]
Solve M.E. CEO Oved Amitay and Dr. Leonard Jason Write Letter to the Editor, Nature
DePaul Univeristy Professor of Psychology Leonard Jason, PhD and Solve M.E. President and CEO Oved Amitay recently co-authored a response to a Nature article linking Epstein-Barr virus (EBV) and multiple […]
CDMRP for ME/CFS: Navigating the Grant Application Process
Solve M.E. hosted special guest, Cecilia Dupecher, PhD Program Manager for PRMRP at the Congressionally Directed Medical Research Programs (CDMRP) for an informational webinar designed to better inform and prepare […]