
Disability agency consults on ME and CFS
by Sasha Nimmo Senior staff from Australia’s National Disability Insurance Agency (NDIA) met with Emerge Australia and ME Australia to
by Sasha Nimmo Senior staff from Australia’s National Disability Insurance Agency (NDIA) met with Emerge Australia and ME Australia to
By Sasha Nimmo People are protesting the University of South Australia’s study ‘A pilot study exploring pacing to increase physical
UNSW deny Prof Lloyd’s CBT/GET trial causes harm to participants and refuses to stop the trial or amend it in any way. The university says the people who are protesting ‘harbour resentment against the notion that CFS may have psychological causes’, plus continues to defend the PACE trial.
UNSW graded exercise therapy trial under investigation after a petition signed by 702 people asked them to halt harmful treatment.
We asked them to stop the trial and they said ‘no’. Australia’s Health Minister responds to our petition asking them to cease graded exercise trial on chronic fatigue syndrome patients at UNSW.
More than 700 people signed the petition to ask the Mason Foundation and the University of New South Wales (UNSW)
by Sasha Nimmo In September 2016, Queen Mary University of London (QMUL) was compelled to release the data from the
The Australian federal government is spending the ME and CFS research budget on training medical professionals to use cognitive behavioural therapy and graded exercise therapy on patients in Australia and internationally, despite the fact these therapies show no benefit and may do harm.
by Sasha Nimmo Update 3 September: In June I asked South Australia’s ME/CFS Australia (SA) if they were recruiting patients (as indicated by
by Sasha Nimmo Australia’s University of NSW’s Psychiatry Department tested a graded activity program on 25 patients with chronic fatigue syndrome,
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