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News Items 2023
It is important that MPs here what is being done rather than a santised or biased view of
activity related to research into ME.
We have supplied an extract from input to the DHSC Delivery Plan Working Group so that MPs can know
of the development and status of the centre in Norwich Research Park.
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Instead of publishing discriminatory comments about ME in their document the DHSC
ought to be defending patients.
In our response to the
DHSC Interim Delivery Plan (here) –
we suggested that the DHSC could instead use a statement to counter the nonsensical misinformation by
using extracts from their very own interim report.
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News Items 2022
In June 2021 at UK charity Invest in ME Research's tenth annual International Biomedical Research into ME Colloquium
(#BRMEC10) ME researchers from around the world met up to discuss research, both past and current,
The agenda was created with the help of The European ME Research Group
and was developed to test popular hypotheses that explain the aetiology of ME.
These included: immunogenetics and dysfunctional immune responses; an abnormal autonomous nervous system
and autoimmunity; mitochondrial metabolic dysfunction; and altered host-microbe (commensal and pathogen)
interactions.
A paper has been published that summarises discussions regaarding one of the hypotheses
from one of the Colloquium
sessions - that immune dysfunction and viral factors may drive the development and progression of ME.
