Steroid hormone changes in ME/CFS Hormones are signalling molecules that are essential in regulating many different processes throughout the body. There are several types, including steroid hormones: corticosteroids (such as glucocorticoids and mineralocorticoids) and sex steroids (such as androgens, oestrogens and progestins). Previous research has reported differences in steroid hormone levels between people with ME/CFS and healthy control subjects, but […]
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UK Parliamentary Answer confirms Delivery Plan timetable Daisy Cooper MP‘s Written Question to the Department of Health and Social Care has illicited a response which confirms the intended (vague) timeline for publication of the final Delivery Plan on ME/CFS. To ask the Secretary of State for Health and Social Care, what progress her Department has made on the Interim Delivery Plan for […]
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What makes ME/CFS so debilitating? For ME Awareness Week 2024, we shared infographics summarising some of the major symptoms of ME/CFS. You can find these collected here. Whilst the fatigue in ME/CFS is debilitating, there is far more to ME/CFS than just this symptom. Fatigue is accompanied by cognitive dysfunction, sleep dysfunction, and post-exertional malaise (PEM). Beyond these core symptoms, […]
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ME Awareness Week 2024 For ME Awareness Week, we asked some of our researchers what they’d like people to know about their own research. Here’s what they said: Read more about their projects: Tina Katsaros Cause-effect relationships in the mitochondrial energy inefficiency in ME/CFS James Allison Pain and autonomic dysfunction in ME/CFS and temporomandibular disorders Jente Van Campenhout Links […]
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Report of the ME/CFS Research Roadmap Working Group of Council – May 2024 Arising from a 2019 Report of the NANDS Council Working Group for ME/CFS Research (NANDS – the National Advisory Neurological Disorders and Stroke) NANDS announced (in 2022) the development of a Research Roadmap process for ME/CFS, to identify research priorities centred on moving ME/CFS research towards translational studies and clinical trials. The finalised Roadmap was […]
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