Pivotal Moment for ME/CFS at the NIH?

One year to the day of the Report’s initiation, Stephen Roberds, the Chair of the ME/CFS Working Group and an NANDSC Council member, stepped up before the National Advisory Council (NANDSC), the Council through which all NINDS grants, initiatives and projects must pass. Before becoming the group’s chair, Roberds knew nothing about chronic fatigue syndrome (ME/CFS), but a year working on the report has convinced him it is a serious and neglected disease. Follow the source link below for details and a link to the report.

Source: Did a Pivotal Moment For ME/CFS Just Happen? – Health Rising

NEW GUIDELINES FOR DIAGNOSING AND TREATING ME/CFS

On March 15-16, leading ME/CFS expert clinicians from across the United States gathered in Salt Lake City for the second annual ME/CFS Expert Clinician Summit. The Open Medicine Foundation was in attendance and has made available a document drafted by the participants that should prove indispensable to clinicians and patients alike:

The basics of diagnosis and management of ME/CFS.

Source: NEW GUIDELINES FOR DIAGNOSING AND TREATING ME/CFS | Open Medicine Foundation

Third Annual Working Group Meeting on the Molecular Basis of ME/CFS @ Stanford

Director of Scientific and Medical Outreach, Jaime Seltzer of #MEAction, gave a talk on Wednesday during a session on “Big Data and ME/CFS” at Stanford University as part of the Third Annual Working Group Meeting on the Molecular Basis of ME/CFS sponsored by the Open Medicine Foundation.

On Saturday, September 7th, from 9 A.M. PDT the proceedings will be open to the public via live stream here.

For additional highlights of the conference proceedings please follow this twitter link.

Update: Day three ended with dinner for the scientists and the OMF at Ron Davis and Janet Dafoe’s home.

Source: Patient Registry is the Key to Achieving Big Data for M.E. – #MEAction