LIVING WITH ME

Although there is a large body of scientific research on chronic fatigue syndrome, these findings are rarely accessible to the practicing clinician. To address this problem, a think tank was held March 16-18, 2000 in Reno, Nev., near Incline Village, where the well-publicized 1984-85 outbreak of Chronic Fatigue Syndrome occurred.

http://www.immunesupport.com/chronic-fatigue-syndrome-advice.htm

ME Association medical adviser Dr Charles Shepherd is to speak at an international conference on ME/CFS in Italy on Friday. Another British participant will be the epidemiologist, Dr Derek Pheby, who heads up the UK National Research Observatory on ME/CFS.

http://www.meassociation.org.uk/content/view/665/70/

Prime Minister Gordon Brown provided an answer on videotape – when Reading Area ME Support Group’s public relations officer Miriam Potter took up No 10′s challenge to quiz him on a subject close to her heart on You Tube.

http://www.meassociation.org.uk/content/view/658/70/

James Purnell MP, Secretary of State for Work and Pensions, has agreed to address the next APPG on M.E., about the Welfare Reform Green Paper, No one written off: reforming welfare to reward responsibility.

http://www.afme.org.uk/news.asp?newsid=375

An ME Question Time – an opportunity to discuss what’s happening in the ME world today – will be held in Colchester, Essex, on Saturday, October 11.

http://www.meassociation.org.uk/content/view/663/70/

The U.S. Food and Drug Administration (FDA) website says that dental amalgam “is the silver-colored material used to fill teeth that have cavities.” The mercury concentration in a silver filling is about 50 percent by weight, the FDA reports, and when you chew food the filling emits a minute amount of mercury vapor.

Currently, the FDA is considering reclassifying dental amalgam to include a warning for people hypersensitive to mercury.

http://www.rocklintoday.com/news/templates/disabilities.asp?articleid=6579&zoneid=64