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Highlights from ABC Primetime Live segment on #MECFS
Hillary Johnson describes how CDC employees joked about #MECFS as a fake bogus disease. The segment marked the release of Hillary‘s book Osler’s Web, which exposed the government’s inaction investigating #MECFS.
We were really encouraged by the support we had from the many Senedd Members (MSs) who visited the Severe ME Difrifol Cymru stall at Y Farchnad (The Marketplace) in @SeneddWales on 15th July… 1/4
🔥 Please share - Very important care campaign for anyone with ME #pwME#pwLC ♥️💙🫂
"Campaigning for ME (Myalgic Encephalomyelitis) to be medically managed safely, to protect families from permanent disability or death from neglect of the illness"
justice4me.uk
Decades of research and medical neglect means that ME, and now Long COVID, still have zero FDA-approved treatments 💊❌
Zero.
By contrast, other major diseases (now with lower total disease burdens) have dozens.
Hard to recover without treatment...
#MECFS#LongCovid#IACI
1/3 ITV News are preparing a news report about #PoTS for middle/late September. They are looking for people who have a diagnosis & are willing to share their story.
Complete this form BEFORE Friday 22nd August: surveymonkey.com/r/RBKTZCT
We are still looking for volunteers from…
We still know precious little about PEM, but one thing's for certain--it represents an impaired recovery response to exertion. How do we know this? We had data from systems to molecules, replicated across myalgic encephalomyelitis cohorts originating regardless of patho-etiology.
Really pleased to say our @wecrunchme video series on ME is now available as a single ~ 15 min video on our YouTube channel 🙌
Hopefully a v digestible but thorough introduction for sharing
youtu.be/VCiVZZnEsVU?si…#MECFS#LongCovid
Resharing my thread on the 1999 BBC Panorama episode Sick and Tired about #MECFS. It includes clips on how some children were pressured into psychiatric treatment, with parental rights removed, and how enforced “rehabilitation” left one boy with PTSD.
Resharing my thread on the 1999 BBC Panorama episode Sick and Tired about #MECFS. It includes clips on how some children were pressured into psychiatric treatment, with parental rights removed, and how enforced “rehabilitation” left one boy with PTSD.
🔬New @BhupeshPrusty paper breakdown - very cool paper:
The study finds that people with ME/CFS & Long COVID have antibodies in their blood that may directly interfere with mitochondria (how human cells create energy and regulate inflammation)
In simple language all findings 🧵
🧵For decades, parents of children with #MECFS have faced false accusations of Fabricated or Induced Illness
It’s like being committed to a psychiatric hospital when you’re not mad… easy to throw around, very difficult to disprove — Clip - Dr Nigel Speight, Panorama (1999)
🧵For decades, parents of children with #MECFS have faced false accusations of Fabricated or Induced Illness
It’s like being committed to a psychiatric hospital when you’re not mad… easy to throw around, very difficult to disprove — Clip - Dr Nigel Speight, Panorama (1999) https://t.co/4EQIQ2WJLE
In Maeve Boothby O'Neill's final weeks, when she was dying of malnutrition caused by ME, social services were investigating her mother Sarah Boothby for fabricating or inducing her illness - and considering Maeve's removal from her care.
thetimes.com/article/c5de6b…
‘As my daughter died of ME, the state met in secret to blame me.’
‘Safeguarding’ nurses, social workers, & mental health workers were assessing Sarah Boothby. As Maeve remained untreated.
The Times.
thetimes.com/article/c5de6b…
Paediatrician Dr Nigel Speight, said parents of sufferers of ME are “a sitting duck” for allegations of FII (Fabricated or Induced Illness). “Without a diagnosis of ME, the guidelines on FII will raise the suspicion of FII in nearly every case of undiagnosed ME.”
Paediatrician Dr Nigel Speight, said parents of sufferers of ME are “a sitting duck” for allegations of FII (Fabricated or Induced Illness). “Without a diagnosis of ME, the guidelines on FII will raise the suspicion of FII in nearly every case of undiagnosed ME.” https://t.co/pw7zH21tMQ
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