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Belgian ME/CFS Protest of March 14, 2011
On March 14, 2011 a national ME/CFS protest took place in Brussels, the capital of Belgium. Maybe you have heard of it before, if not there are some links at the end of this article. However, what...
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Are British Libel Laws Used To Silence The ME/CFS Debate In Belgium?
In a previous article, “Belgian ME/CFS protest on March 14, 2011“, I explored what could be the cause of the lack of media-attention for a successful action by ME/CFS patients. My conclusion was that...
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Deer therapy for CFS. You’ve got to be kidding me!
In 2 previous articles (link, link) I explored the reasons why, according to me, a successful action by a patient movement didn’t get the attention it deserved by the media. To my surprise, a rather...
View ArticleThe ICC for ME are finally published. What’s next?
The paper “Myalgic encephalomyelitis: International Consensus Criteria” is finally published in the Journal of Internal Medicine (Volume 270, Issue 4, pages 327–338, October 2011), 2 months after it...
View ArticleCall to action for all Belgian ME/CFS patients – October 2011
Most of you will probably have heard of the new criteria for Myalgic Encephalomyelitis (ME) which were published in the Journal of Internal Medicine in October 2011. Full reference (without mentioning...
View ArticleIs this the end for the Belgian CFS reference centers?
Game over for the reference centers for CFS (chronic fatigue syndrome) in Belgium, where proponents of the biopsychosocial model held sway for 10 years. By the end of this year the 5 centers situated...
View ArticleResearch into ME, CFS and fibromyalgia, made in Flanders
Everyone assumes that there is neither the will nor the money for biomedical research into myalgic encephalomyelitis (ME), chronic fatigue syndrome (CFS), and fibromyalgia (FM) in Belgium, but that is...
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A self-test for CFS/ME?
In June 2009 prof. dr. Kenny De Meirleir and Chris Roelant announced to the world a self-test for CFS, based on the amount of H2S in the urine of patients. Fast forward to February 2012, almost 3 years...
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The role ME/CFS patient-organizations overlooked
Patient-organizations have to be versatile: gathering information, making sense of it, communicating, spreading the word, raising awareness, rallying patients for a campaign, lobbying, organizing, …...
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The new, multidisciplinary, diagnostic centres for CFS in Belgium
The new, multidisciplinary, diagnostic centres for CFS1, 3 in Belgium will open their doors on September 1, 2014. This article is a critique of the National Institute for Health and Disability...
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Myalgic Encephalomyelitis and Postviral Fatigue States – The saga of Royal...
If you read just one book, one document, or one paper about Myalgic Encephalomyelitis, then let this book be it. A. Melvin Ramsay (⋆1901 – † 1990), MA MD and Honorary Consultant Physician in Infectious...
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