CFS/ME Research & News

 

 

Cherith overcomes adversity to achieve 'personal gold'

British News

 

Thursday 21st August 2008

 

DESPITE dealing with personal tragedy few youngsters could comprehend, determined Cherith Johnson has emerged as the shining star of her school's GCSE successes.

 

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Ormskirk School student gains straight As in A-Levels despite illness

British News

 

Thursday 21st August 2008

 

ORMSKIRK School student David Walker gained straight As in his A-Levels despite missing nearly half his lessons through illness.

 

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Disabled vigilante's war on parkers

British News

 

Monday 18th August 2008

 

Parking vigilante Joanne Willis is so fed up with "dozy parkers" making life a misery for disabled people that she has started ticketing cars herself.

 

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Health leaders accused of 'burying' report on ME care

British News

 

Saturday 16th August 2008

 

A SUPPORT group for people with chronic and debilitating fatigue has accused NHS Lothian of "burying" a report that criticises the way sufferers are cared for within the health service.

 

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Mum aims to set up autism and ME support groups

British News

 

Saturday 9th August 2008

 

A mum is hoping to set up two new support groups in Tadley to help families and individuals dealing with autism and ME. Michaela Riley has suffered the symptoms of ME and Chronic Fatigue Syndrome for many years and her seven-year-old son Josh was diagnosed with Asperger syndrome last June.

 

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At RAF Hunsdon

British News

 

Friday 8th August 2008

 

These last few shots mark a sad moment, my last few days of reasonable personal mobility. I suffer from M.E./CFS and have operated a car for the last three years under the Motability scheme linked to my state Disability Living Allowance (DLA).

 

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An invisible illness: Chronic Fatigue Syndrome

American News

 

Friday 8th August 2008

 

Susan Midcap lives in Hartville. She's married and has a daughter, Jen, a recent college graduate. Susan teaches at Lake High School and is 52 years old. She smiles a lot and her students know her as one of the “cool teachers.”

 

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Different diseases

American News

 

Tuesday 5th August 2008

 

When Shawn Burnette says, "Though chronic fatigue syndrome is not fatal ..." ("Finding a way through the pain," July 26), she alerts us to how crucial it is for us to distinguish between those who have been diagnosed with M.E. (myalgic encephalomyelitis), in which there is thought to be abnormal neurological pathology and inflammation of the spinal cord, and those who have been diagnosed with any one of a number of illnesses that have chronic fatigue as a principal symptom and fall under the umbrella term, chronic fatigue syndrome.

 

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