New 3-minute video in English from the Norwegian ME Association
PEM [Post Exertional Malaise] and "energy coins" - a short explanation of PEM
Our latest News in Brief summary has headlines and links to further reading about ME/CFS, Long Covid, and related news for the week of May 25 - 31.
https://s4me.info/threads/news-in-brief-may-2026.50158/#post-696601
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Harvard Collaboration Seeking Participants for the Life Improvement Trial (LIFT)
Extract from Massachusetts ME/CFS & FM Association May 2026 newsletter
David Tuller:
An interview with Professor Chris Ponting, a geneticist at the University of Edinburgh, about the recently announced follow-up to DecodeME called Sequence ME & Long Covid. https://virology.ws/2026/05/31/trial-by-error-interview-with-chris-ponting-about-sequence-me-long-covid/
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One person has done a short post with their highlights from the interview:
Dr Amolak Bansal, a retired UK ME/CFS expert clinician and researcher, has a novel coming out in a couple of months where the lead character has ME.
He announced this at his Dublin @IrishMECFSAssociation talk recently.
Last May, a team of researchers led by Braeden Charlton and including ME Research UK-funded researcher Associate Professor Rob Wüst published a pre-print paper, which made a case against deconditioning as a primary cause of ME/CFS symptoms.
Read more: https://tinyurl.com/3zntm88j
ME Research UK:
On 18th June, a short debate (no more than 1 hour) in the House of Lords has been secured for 'The treatment of, and research into, severe myalgic encephalomyelitis' - https://tinyurl.com/2heh47r4
#MyalgicEncephalomyelitis #ChronicFatigueSyndrome #MEcfs #CFS #PwME @mecfs
ME Research UK:
The Spring 2026 issue of Breakthrough magazine is now available online, with news of the ME research you are helping to fund: https://bit.ly/4act0hR. If you want to help support more vital research like this, please consider making a donation: https://bit.ly/49o2bXJ
ME Research UK:
On the 23rd of April 2026, the fourth meeting of ME Research UK’s ‘Researcher Circle’ took place online.
Read more: https://bit.ly/4dvNK6q
Colin-Roy Hunter
Tom Kindlon
Science for ME Forum