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"These cellular accumulations are a novel observation broadly aligning with similar accumulations in biofluids, greatly strengthening a consistent evidence base for abnormal lipid handling in ME/CFS."
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@mecfs
Next Kilkenny ME meetup is next week, on Tuesday 20th, in the Bistro Bar, Rivercourt Hotel 2 - 4pm.
If you want mobile number for organiser, message us or email info dot irishmecfs.org .
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#RichardMurphy questions the neutrality of #medicine.
I have a comment (#48) published including reference to #MECFS & #pwME.
Link to Richard’s own blog-site:
We like to believe medicine exists solely to heal. History tells a different story. From slavery to women’s dissent, from homosexuality to neurodivergence, medical authority has repeatedly been used to define resistance as illness and compliance as health. This video explores how diagnosis has been shaped by power, how difference has been...
RE: https://mastodon.ie/@IrishMECFSAssociation/115882385814941144
Hope to see a few of you at this 👋.
There probably won’t be another meet-up after this for 2 months (for various not-very-interesting reasons)
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Informal ME/CFS social meet-up in Dublin hosted by Tom Kindlon @tomkindlon on Tuesday, January 27.
Hopefully we’ll see some of you there
https://irishmecfs.org/blog/tuesday-january-27-dublin-informal-mecfs-social-meet-up-hosted-by-tom-kindlon-irish-mecfs-association
Carers/parents/similar welcome.
#MEcfs #LongCovid #CFS #PwME #MyalgicEncephalomyelitis #ChronicFatigueSyndrome #dublin15 @longcovid @mecfs
Altered effort and deconditioning are not valid explanations of myalgic encephalomyelitis/chronic fatigue syndrome
https://www.nature.com/articles/s41467-025-64538-0
Screenshot from the January 2026 AMMES newsletter
#MEcfs #CFS #PwME #MyalgicEncephalomyelitis #ChronicFatigueSyndrome @mecfs
ME Research UK:
Netherlands research body (ZonMw) has launched a c€3.5m call for research applications into clinical research into effectiveness of existing medicines (off-patent and available in the Netherlands) which may prove effective for ME/CFS. https://tinyurl.com/kzrxwbwp
ME Research UK:
According to ME/CFS Science, the "most interesting #MECFS research studies" of 2025 included work from Chris Ponting, Rob Wüst, Bupesh Prusty, Nuno Sepúlveda, and Carmen Schiebenbogen, all of whom have received funding from ME Research UK.
Read more: https://bit.ly/49mIlev
Comment today from Dr Nigel Speight
#MEcfs #CFS #PwME #MyalgicEncephalomyelitis @mecfs @longcovid
#LongCovid
5-page post-exertional malaise (PEM) fact sheet
https://www.s4me.info/docs/PEM_Factsheet.pdf
Headings:
-Characteristics of PEM
-Symptoms of PEM
-Exertion and other PEM triggers
-Effects of exertion that are not PEM
-Living with PEM
-Examples of PEM
-Research on PEM
-References
This was very popular a few months ago so I thought I would re-share it.
#MyalgicEncephalomyelitis #ChronicFatigueSyndrome #MEcfs #CFS #PwME #longcovid @longcovid
Tom Kindlon
Irish ME/CFS Association
Colin-Roy Hunter