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Hunanreolaeth ME/CFS – Ymunwch â'r Sgwrs!
📷 Dydd Gwener 28 Tach 📷 11:00 YB – 12:30 YH 📷 Zoom
Mae Lleisiau ME Cymru yn eich gwahodd i'n helpu i archwilio:
- Strategaethau ymarferol etc
- Cofrestrwch nawr!
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ME Voices Wales: ME/CFS Self-management event
Event Timing: Friday 28 November 2025, 11:00am - 12:30pm Register to attend via Zoom Do you have questions or thoughts about ME/CFS self-management? Why is it necessary? What is it? Can anyone help? ...
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November 26, 2025 at 3:09 PM
ME/CFS Self-Management – Join the Conversation!
📷 Fri 28 Nov 📷 11:00 AM – 12:30 PM 📷 Zoom
ME Voices Wales invites you to help us explore:
- Practical strategies
- NHS support & services
- Via Polls &/or discussion groups
- Register now! tinyurl.com/bwwzfwrz
ME Voices Wales: ME/CFS Self-management event
Event Timing: Friday 28 November 2025, 11:00am - 12:30pm Register to attend via Zoom Do you have questions or thoughts about ME/CFS self-management? Why is it necessary? What is it? Can anyone help? ...
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November 26, 2025 at 3:06 PM
More than a year after developing long COVID Prof Peter Swenson says he's not on an illness journey. "I’m pinned down by it, stuck with it. I feel like I’m getting nowhere." Instead of being on a 'care journey' his healthcare visits feel like "stops on a bad trip".
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I have long Covid. Don’t call my chronic disease a ‘journey’
A “journey” is something you choose. No one chooses chronic illness.
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November 26, 2025 at 2:58 PM
Dr. Chris Armstrong and Dr. Wenzhong Xiao, two of OMF’s Directors, they talk about what they think is going on in ME/CFS, including differences in producing energy and the dysfunction in the immune and central nervous systems. [18 mins] +Transcript
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An Interview with Chris Armstrong, PhD and Wenzhong Xiao, PhD
In an interview with Dr. Chris Armstrong and Dr. Wenzhong Xiao, two of OMF’s Directors, they talk about what they think is going on in ME/CFS, including differences in producing energy and the immune and central nervous systems being out of balance. All donations to OMF are TRIPLED until December 2, 2025. There’s only ONE WEEK LEFT to triple your impact—act before the match runs out! Donate today!
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November 26, 2025 at 2:57 PM
MERUK reports on the reasons Dr Carmen Scheibenbogen believes that autoimmunity may play a role in at least a subset of people with ME/CFS and long COVID. She also names several treatments that show promise.
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November 26, 2025 at 2:55 PM
Ydych chi'n ‘byw'n dda’ gyda ME?
Oes gennych chi gwestiynau am hunanreolaeth? Ymunwch â Llais ME Cymru i ddysgu mwy a rhannu profiadau (neu dim ond gwrando).
Dydd Gwener 28 Tach @ 11:00 YB – 12:30 YH (gyda seibiant) - Zoom
- Cofrestrwch nawr!
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ME Voices Wales: ME/CFS Self-management event
Event Timing: Friday 28 November 2025, 11:00am - 12:30pm Register to attend via Zoom Do you have questions or thoughts about ME/CFS self-management? Why is it necessary? What is it? Can anyone help? ...
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November 25, 2025 at 3:26 PM
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ME Voices Wales invites you to help us explore:
✔ Practical strategies
✔ NHS support & services
✔ Via Polls &/or discussion groups
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November 25, 2025 at 3:17 PM
Hundreds of thousands of vulnerable unpaid carers will have their cases reassessed after a damning official review concluded they had been left with huge debts because of government failure and maladministration.
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DWP to reassess hundreds of thousands of cases in carer’s allowance scandal
Damning official review finds many unpaid carers left with huge debt because of government failure
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November 25, 2025 at 10:23 AM
Joshua Dibble from the Decode Project gives his perspective on the implications of what they found and next steps. [28 mins] +Transcript
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Joshua Dibble | Initial Findings from the DecodeME Genomic-wide Association Study
Joshua Dibble from the University of Edinburgh Initial Findings from the DecodeME Genomic-wide Association Study
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November 25, 2025 at 10:21 AM
A new report has found that a previous UK gov’s cut to ESA caused a rise in poverty & mental health conditions, but had no significant effect on employment rates. A similar cut to Universal Credit (UC), is due, which is allegedly intended to boost employment rates.
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Disability benefit cuts cause rise in poverty and mental health issues, not employment rates
Get the benefits you're entitled to: help with personal independence payment (PIP), universal credit (UC), employment and support allowance (ESA),disability living allowance (DLA). Claims, assessments...
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November 25, 2025 at 10:19 AM
Secretary of state for work and pensions Pat McFadden refused to rule-out PIP cuts or rule-in the abolition of the work capability assessment (WCA), in wide ranging discussions with the Commons Work and Pensions committee (WPC) last week.
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McFadden refuses to rule-out PIP cuts or rule-in WCA abolition
Get the benefits you're entitled to: help with personal independence payment (PIP), universal credit (UC), employment and support allowance (ESA),disability living allowance (DLA). Claims, assessments...
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November 25, 2025 at 10:17 AM
OMF briefly explains what a biomarker is and that researchers are working towards identifying robust biomarkers that can identify ME/CFS and differentiate it from other diseases that look like it in the clinic.
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Biomarker - Open Medicine Foundation
Learn more about BioQuest, a large-scale biomarker project aiming to find a unique biomarker signature for ME/CFS.
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November 25, 2025 at 10:15 AM
A moving 4 min video trailer about severe ME. The producers are raising funds to make a full length documentary with contributions by patients, carers & experts. "The marginalization of ME/CFS patients stands as one of the most consequential public health failures of our time."
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Donate to The First Feature-Length Documentary on ME CFS & Long COVID, organized by Stephen Fortuna
It has been nearly six years since the onset of the COVID-19 … Stephen Fortuna needs your support for The First Feature-Length Documentary on ME CFS & Long COVID
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November 25, 2025 at 10:13 AM
New with Easyfundraising. - You can now raise donations in-store
1. Get the app
2. Add your bank card(s) to your app
3. Shop in person at participating stores. Pay using your card or Apple/Google Pay, & you can raise free donations for WAMES over the Christmas shopping period!
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In-Store Donations | easyfundraising
Raise free donations for your cause when you shop in person at selected stores.
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November 24, 2025 at 11:01 AM
Dr Francisco Westermeier's team has found that ME/CFS affects the cardiometabolic health of women differently from how it affects the health of men and suggests that antioxidants may help men with ME/CFS more than women with ME/CFS.
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Solve-Funded Study Finds Posture and Sex Affect Cardiometabolic Health in People with ME/CFS - Solve ME/CFS Initiative
Results from a Solve Ramsay Research Grant-funded study suggest that sex and posture significantly influence cardiometabolic health in ME/CFS and that antioxidant treatments for ME/CFS may help men mo...
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November 24, 2025 at 10:52 AM
The BMA reports on the COVID inquiry's catastrophic failure to manage the pandemic. They agree there is a need for future pandemic preparedness plans but public health systems must also be restored and healthcare staff's experiences, including those with LC, learned from.
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Covid 19 Inquiry report reveals Government’s catastrophic failure to manage the pandemic, says BMA - BMA media centre - BMA
Press release by the BMA. 
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November 24, 2025 at 10:50 AM
Dr Jonas Bergquist & Dr Alain Moreau discuss their main ideas behind ME/CFS, including an immune system that is too active in the brain and spinal cord, inherited factors, and how genes are expressed. [23 mins] +Transcript
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An Interview with Dr. Bergquist and Dr. Moreau: From Genes to Proteins to Neuroinflammation
In this interview, Jonas Bergquist, MD, PhD, and Alain Moreau, PhD, two of OMF’s Directors, discuss their main ideas behind ME/CFS, including an immune system that is too active in the brain and spinal cord, inherited factors, and how genes are expressed. Every dollar fuels groundbreaking research to find life-changing answers. All donations to OMF are tripled from November 1 through December 2, 2025.
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November 24, 2025 at 10:49 AM
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November 21, 2025 at 1:02 PM
Physios for ME invite healthcare professionals around the world with Long COVID (with post-exertional malaise) and/or ME/CFS to take part in a survey to share their experiences of illness. Closing date 31 December 202, 6pm.
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hcps with ME survey | Physiosforme
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November 21, 2025 at 12:57 PM
Dr David Systrom from Harvard University talks about treating ME/CFS and Long COVID as organic diseases with repurposed medications. [19 mins] +Transcript
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David Systrom, MD | Treating ME/CFS and Long COVID as organic diseases with repurposed medications
David Systrom, MD, Harvard University Treating ME/CFS and Long COVID as organic diseases with repurposed medications
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November 21, 2025 at 12:55 PM
Campaigners have written to the UK Chancellor saying that removing the VAT exemption on adapted vehicles in the Motability scheme would reduce workforce participation, increase demand for health & social care, & cost the economy billions in lost productivity.
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Disability campaigners urge chancellor not to target Motability
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November 21, 2025 at 12:55 PM
MERUK summarises the Westminster Debate and the response from the UK Gov by Ashley Dalton MP. He recognised that many feel that the Delivery plan does not go far enough, but that more work is to be done and they are committed to making the system work better for people with ME.
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Westminster Hall Debate on ME – 19 November 2025
Despite the devastating toll of the condition, people with ME have endured decades of substandard and sometimes downright unsafe healthcare, with pitifully little funding for research. In spite of the...
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November 21, 2025 at 12:52 PM
A blog outlines the enduring challenges that people face when navigating the welfare system. Forum conversations show consistent difficulties in how people relate to the welfare state. "It is possible to have a welfare system which treats people with dignity, compassion & care."
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Putting humanity at the heart of welfare
Demos is Britain’s leading cross-party think-tank. We produce original research, publish innovative thinkers and host thought-provoking events.
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November 20, 2025 at 11:48 AM
A blog outlines the enduring challenges that people face when navigating the welfare system. Forum conversations show consistent difficulties in how people relate to the welfare state. "It is possible to have a welfare system which treats people with dignity, compassion & care."
tinyurl.com/mvnnxjd7
Putting humanity at the heart of welfare
Demos is Britain’s leading cross-party think-tank. We produce original research, publish innovative thinkers and host thought-provoking events.
tinyurl.com
November 20, 2025 at 11:13 AM